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Domain Name InformationReselling Domain Names
by:
Lois S.
September 2005
You offer web hosting services. Or web design services. Or both. Once
your clients need domain names for their websites, do you want to send them to another site, possibly to a competitor, to register one?
Of course not. That's part of why domain name registration is a popular service to offer. Reselling domain names provides an additional service to attract and support clients as well as another source of revenant revenue. You can offer domain name registrations on their own or bundled with another services you provide.
Features of domain name reseller programs
When you are a domain name reseller, your clients register domain names exploitation the service accessed through your domain name reseller account. The domain name institution bills you, and you bill your clients. Or possibly the domain institution handles the billing.
You decide on the retail pricing, and you market your services. The wholesale prices you pay before you add your markup depend on your sales volume and on the domain name reseller program you choose.
All of the domain name reseller companies compared in this article offer a reseller API (Application Programming Interface), which enables you to use the features provided with the domain reseller program. Once
your clients register domain names or update records at your site, the API communicates with the domain name reseller program system. With an API at your website, you support the appearance and stigmatization of your site once
you sell
domain names.
Two of the domain name companies compared here offer website production tools for resellers, which means that you can be in the business of reselling domain names inside
minutes of having your account set up.
Many domain name reseller programs require the domain name reseller to pay and on a regular basis
top up a deposit for domain names. By doing this, the domain name reseller is paying for the domains in advance piece devising a profit from them once
they're registered.
Domain name companies compared
The starting prices listed are the highest current wholesale prices for .com domains. Several another extensions may be higher, and the prices typically decrease with volume pricing.
See the institution websites for much details just about what each domain name reseller program offers.
BulkRegister
BulkRegister's Domain Pilot tool allows domain name resellers to provide their clients with a unique URL and access code to do changes to the Whois data for their domains. Resellers can control which of the fields to provide their clients with access to. Registration can be machine-controlled or manual.
Resellers become BulkRegister members and are invited to take part in discussions just about product ideas, upgrades, and updates. A $50 Overture advertising credit comes with the 1st year of membership.
- Setup fee: No
- Annual fee: $99
- Deposit required: No
- Starting wholesale evaluation for .com domains: $12
- Website production tool for resellers: No
- SSL certificate: Yes
eNom
If you sell
domain names through eNom, you choose between two eNom tools:
- Machine-controlled Registration Software system (API), which allows your clients to register and manage their domains through your site
- PDQ, a site that you customize and eNom manages — they handle the billing, and you earn commissions
As an eNom domain name reseller, you can besides offer your clients web hosting, web monitoring, SSL certificates, and another eNom products as a reseller.
- Setup fee: No
- Annual fee: $99 if you use the PDQ website tool
- Deposit required: Starts at $199 for 199 eNom points
- Starting wholesale evaluation for .com domains: $9.95
- Website production tool for resellers: Yes
- SSL certificate: No
Tucows
A website builder, blogware, SSL certificates, and email services are among the services you can sell
as well as domain names.
- Setup fee: $95
- Annual fee: No
- Deposit required: No minimum payment, but they recommend prepaying one month of credit in advance
- Starting wholesale evaluation for .com domains: $9.85
- Website production tool for resellers: No
- SSL certificate: No
Wild West Domains
Owned by The Go Dad Group, Inc., Wild West Domains offers some reseller packages. They besides offer another products to sell
in addition to domain names, including hosting, website builders, email plans, SSL certificates, and merchandiser accounts.
- Setup fee: No
- Annual fee: Starting at $99; $249 with the API
- Deposit required: No
- Starting wholesale evaluation for .com domains: $7.75
- Website production tool for resellers: Yes
- SSL certificate: Yes
Just just about the author:
Lois S. is a Technical Executive Writer for http://www.websitesource.com and http://www.lowpricedomains.com
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