Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-developing platform that delivers new options to earn money on the Web. One of them is to be a domain name reseller and offer domain names to end customers, gaining profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered every day, and there are millions of currently active domain names, so this is an enlarging marketing niche that you can become engaged in.

Top-Level and Second-Level Domains

A domain consists of 2 pieces - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the top-level domain name and "domain" is the SLD.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains include the most widespread domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code TLDs consist of 2-letter abbreviations that symbolize each country. Instances of country-code top-level domain names are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that tackles the registrations and sets the preconditions that each given TLD may contain, including the duration of the registration term or the residency of the registrant. Certain Registrar corporations work under the Registry. These are the companies that actually offer the domain name to customers and administer all DNS resource records.

Make Money From Reselling Domain Names

A lot of Registrars have reseller programs that allow individuals to make money from offering domain names to end users. If you subscribe to such a program, you can kickstart your own online business. Usually, a domain will be more inexpensive if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is obtained directly from the Registrar by an end client. The cause is that resellers can reach more people in regions or states where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both parties will make a profit from that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar imposes for the domain registration.

Trade TLDs Under Your Personal Brand Name

When you register with a domain name reseller program, you will acquire a web site hosting CP where you can fix the prices for the separate TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also provide billing transaction software and web layouts for your online store, and the automation of the entire procedure coupled with the enormous demand for domain names render the domain reseller market niche so desirable. You will either acquire a ready-to-use web site and avail of the Registrar platform to resell domains, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can make your very own site and order form. Traditionally, you have the opportunity to decide between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how practiced you are in these things. As a domain reseller, you will do business on behalf of your own trademark name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Gain Revenue From Supplying Site Hosting Plans Too

An appropriate addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting accounts too. Thus, you can give a package deal to persons who wish to make their online portal and require both a domain and a webspace hosting account. Given corporations have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for instance, you can purchase a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain reseller account and free-of-charge invoice software to bill your clients. You can then sell TLDs and shared hosting plans to clients, and since they offer plenty of diverse domain name extensions, you will be able to offer domain name and hosting services to customers from all over the globe.