Originally posted by gariben
yes.. the account that i'm selling is fully authorized by eNom. plus any account you create will be fully recognize by eNom. You can create unlimited $8.95 or above reseller accounts. Every domain sold by your resellers will earn you $1 or more. Hope this clarifies the issue.
Great! I am considering $7.25 accounts but their price is high, so this is the best offer so far. I would just like to know one more thing: how exactly did you acquire these $7.95 accounts? Was this 5+ years ago when Enom had a different policy? Did you have to make a large deposit to open each account, and if so how much? (I have had an Enom $8.95 account for 2 years, that I got from Enom by depositing $500.)
Gariben, please "tell the whole story." The more details, the more confident I will feel about what kind of account I am getting. Thank you.
Meanwhile, "correct me if wrong," but I think I can answer most of these questions asked by Cyphix:
When you create sub-accounts when your a reseller for others, like $8.95 retail/reseller accounts, do you make like $1.00 off of every domain they reg?
Yes. (Except maybe for credit card processing fees, which can be like 10c to 25c per domain, depending on whether you use Enoms free service or set up your own or PDQ or whatever.)
What about the resellers under them? Like sub-accounts that were created by reseller's who are an sub-account of you?
Best for Gariben to answer this. "I think" the answer is yes. But does this really matter for only $25?
Also, when you setup sub-accounts, I don't quite understand how the billing works for the people who you setup the sub-account for? I currently have a $8.95 reseller account & when I reg names I notice my billing email comes from my person who created my reseller accounts email addy... why is this? How does this work exactly?
Well look, I also have an $8.95 reseller account--but direct from Enom--and when I transfer or renew a domain, I get "bills from myself..." So this might be different depending on whether you have a PDQ or a RegistryRocket interface, and whether you are under someone else...
So Gariben might not be able to answer all this easily, but what is the issue here? If you are concerned about "transparency," I think "probably" you can work with Enom and arrange something. This would be needed regardless of what kind of reseller account you have or how you got it.
I would say, if you have several thousand dollars to deposit, and a serious potential reseller market available, you need not bother with a $25 sub-sub-sub account. But I myself am hardly certain to make a lot of money (or any money) reselling domains. It is very, very competitive. Why should someone come to you or to your sub-resellers when they can go straight to RegisterFly or DomainCheap, etc., etc., and pay less than you possibly might charge? Answer is you give special service---you sell to people you know or when you work on their website, etc. These people often pay $30/year from Enom or NetworkSolutions, and don't mind paying you $15 or $20 or maybe even $30/year.
Now is it worth if for you to pay $500 or to deposit $10,000 (or something like that, not sure the amount actually) so you can get domains for a cost of $5.99, and just maybe (maybe-maybe) compete directly with RegisterFly etc?
These $25 accounts can save you a few dollars on your renewals--and MAYBE make some money setting up a few sub-resellers. That's about it.
So---the only thing that I am concerned about, is WILL ENOM GIVE GOOD SERVICE TO MY ACCOUNTS, AND TO ALL MY SUB-ACCOUNTS? If the answer were "maybe not" it would not be worth it, even if it were free. And I am hoping Gariben can clarify this further, by "telling the story" of the exact origen of these accounts. Well so far the answer seems to be "YES." So then it is a $25 that will quickly be saved with your next 25 renewals for yourself.
(I also have a $5.99 "name only" account, and this is where I keep most of my 200+ domains, because seldom do I need URL forwarding etc. So I only have about 6 domains that I will renew in the $7.95 account. Therefore I would not want to pay $50 just to save $1 per domain. But $25 is a good buy, especially if "just maybe" I can sign up a few sub-resellers.)
