Domain Reseller Provider
When you provide web hosting services, you would also need to provide domain registration services, so that your clients can register their domain name while ordering web hosting.
There are several domain reseller providers. The most complete one is Enom which allow you to resell up to 64 Top Level Domains (TLD).
There are two types of domain reseller services in the industry. The first one is a turn-key service which provides you with a “copy” of full working website and allows you to sell domain names from this website. With this approach, all you need to do is to drive visitors to your domain registration website. When people buy domain names or other related services, they will be paying directly to the provider and not to you. Once a month or twice a month, you will then be paid by the provider totaling all the sales you made so far.
This all-in-one solution is good, BUT this is not what you are looking for.
The second type is one that allows full flexibility for you to “integrate” this domain registration services into your existing hosting business by utilizing your own existing shopping cart system and client management system. As you would have guess, this second approach would mean more work to be done upfront, BUT will eventually give you the maximum growth factor to gain maximum profit.
I would recommend using Enom’s API (Application Programming Interface) based services which allow you to sell domain names “independently” and to integrate your domain registration services with your existing services.
To be eligible as an Enom Technology Partner (ETP), it would require opening up an Enom ETP account. This would initially cost you as they require an upfront deposit for you to get their lowest domain reselling prices. I believe you would need to deposit some $5,000 or more to get their lowest $6.95/year pricing.
BUT, the good news is Enom’s existing ETP are allowed to setup sub-resellers. These ETP would normally charge you no upfront fee to be their sub-resellers.
You can find these Enom Technology Partners to setup a free Enom sub-reseller account to get you started without having to spend a big capital upfront. Just search “enom reseller account” on Google.
You can compare the list of Top Level Domains you can sell and their pricing to decide which one you can go with. I would strongly recommend you to use Enom simply because they have been totally focused as a domain reseller provider and I personally have received a superb service from them in the past 9 years or so.