Aspiring Domain Reseller

[dhavald]

I will be very frank. I'm not an expert in this industry. I have other offline businesses. But now I'm getting interested in online ventures too. For starters, the domain reselling business.

I am already a Web Hosting company based in UK. I have around 600 hosting customers. I could do business of a few hundred domain registrations each month. I have not been doing domain registration actively so far. I have my own servers purchased from EV1 for the purpose of my hosting customers. I use a commercial control panel for them. I have 5 people in my company to manage this business. I want to sign up with a Registrar which provides the best option for me.

Q What are the factors that I should consider while choosing a Regsitrar?
Q What do you think about Wild West Domains considering my customer base size?

 

[tekz999]

Enom reseller. WWD is no good, you have to renewal membership fees, and pricing is no good.

 

[iPlox]

I would recommend Directi or Enom, I myself use Directi. Start off with at least $500 as that will get you very competitive pricing. Then, you better have a credit card gateway and Paypal gateways are very handy too, because there is zero fees.

For your credit card gateway, go for 2Checkout.

 

[webfreak]

FYI, it's a general rule of thumb not to register your domain and get hosting from the same place. Keep that in mind.

Go with eNom, though.

 

[skh]

Enom is the best!

 

[ptesite]

Isn't reselling kind of low profit margin?

I mean, unless you have other things to back it up, such as hosting, e-mail services, etc to generate recurring income.

 

[webfreak]

Isn't reselling kind of low profit margin?

I mean, unless you have other things to back it up, such as hosting, e-mail services, etc to generate recurring income.

Bingo!