Domain reseller

The World Wide Web is an ever-flourishing platform that supplies new opportunities to gain money on the Internet. One of these options is to be a domain name reseller and offer domain names to end customers, making revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail cost of each and every domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered each and every day, and there are 1 000 000's of presently functioning domain names, so this is a developing business niche that you can become involved in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain name involves two constituents - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the SLD.

gTLDs and ccTLDs

The TLDs can be generic or country code. The generic Top-Level Domains comprise the most popular domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the country-code top-level domain names are composed of 2-letter abbreviations that denote each country. Examples of country-code Top-Level Domains are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each top-level domain name, whether it is a generic Top-Level Domain or a country-code one, has a Registry - an organization that administers the registrations and determines the preconditions that each concrete TLD may impose, like the duration of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. Certain Registrar firms operate under the Registry. These are the firms that in fact sell the domain name to customers and handle all DNS resource records.

Make Revenue From Trading Domains

Lots of Registrars have reseller programs that permit people to earn revenue from offering domain names to end users. If you register with such a program, you can kickstart your own personal e-business. Regularly, a domain name will cost less if it is registered through a reseller rather than if it is bought directly from the Registrar by an end customer. The cause is that resellers can contact more users in local regions or countries where the Registrar may not be known at all. This implies more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will take advantage of that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the client pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain registration.

Offer Top-Level Domain Names On Behalf Of Your Very Own Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will acquire a webspace hosting Control Panel where you can select the prices for the individual Top-Level Domains that the Registrar provides. Most corporations also offer billing software and web site themes for your online storefront, and the automation of the entire process together with the big demand for domains make the domain name reseller business so attractive. You will either receive a pre-made site and utilize the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will offer you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own personal portal and order form. Normally, you have the opportunity to choose between the 2 possibilities, so it all depends on how experienced you are in these issues. As a domain reseller, you will sell under your personal brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's brand.

Earn Profit From Trading Web Page Hosting Accounts Too

A proper addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting packages too. Thereby, you can give a package deal to clients who wish to run their site and demand both a domain name and a site hosting account. A few firms offer such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can purchase a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and charge-free invoice transaction software to charge your clients. You can then sell top-level domain names and shared hosting packages to customers, and since they offer plenty of diverse domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to users from all around the globe.