I'm looking to register a couple of new domains and i keep seeing enom brought up here. I am starting a web hosting biz in a few months from now and would also like to resell domain, although not too many. A couple of questions:

1) Why is Enom so bloody expensive for .com domains? They are asking $29.95 a year.
2) From reading the FAQs on this site, Enom wants a minimum of $500 to begin reselling domains. Way out of my ball-park for this start up.

I'm just looking at need to register some of my own (around 5), transfer some current ones, and resell probably no more than 10-15 domains a month (but would prefer the transparency of reseller scripting). I'd prefer to do all the managment of these from one central location. Also, $29 a year is a bit unreasonable, I'm looking more at around $10 year.

One last thing - one reason why Enom is appealing is that it has .com.cn and .com.tw TLDs, which is what I want as I will host in Greater China (.hk would be great too, but I haven't seen a registrar with that yet).

Any ideas or direction?

Cheers,
Todd

No $495 deposit required for the $8.95 reseller account if you go through an ETP. That is why they are attractive.

Cool, how do you find ETPs?

Todd, you can look in the Domain Offers section towards the bottom of the main forum display. People offer accounts there very often. You can pick a 7.95 account for about 15$.

Take a look at www.directi.com as well, they are a popular reseller which seems to be picking up a lot of clients.
www.dotster.com also has an Instant Reseller setup and I believe you can get API from them as well.

good luck.

Dotster is more expensive I thought?

dotster is negotiable... they go into the seven dollar range if you have the volume.

here is what you are looking for

hkirc.net.hk/hkdnr/index.jsp

i think this is the only way to reg .hk, .com.hk, etc

excellent, thank you guys.

i am starting a webhosting in Hong Kong.
see if there's anything that we can co-op, as i am also having problem finding domain registrars.

email me: derekcheung@ultraphy.com

will do, thanks derek.

ETP is Enom Technology Partner who paid $500 or $6950 to get low pricing and they can open you a free $8.95 account to start with.

check Domain names related offers and requests forum, some people are offering there.

Originally posted by Todd Main
1) Why is Enom so bloody expensive for .com domains? They are asking $29.95 a year.


The high rate applies if you get a standard personal account directly under enom. They told me it is set high so they don't compete (well) with their reseller customers.

If you just want 8.95 domains for yourself, you could probably get an 8.95 retail account from an enom reseller (for free).

Originally posted by CD Burnt
The high rate applies if you get a standard personal account directly under enom. They told me it is set high so they don't compete (well) with their reseller customers.

If you just want 8.95 domains for yourself, you could probably get an 8.95 retail account from an enom reseller (for free).

Correct, their *retail* pricing is set @ 29.95 so they dont compete with their resellers

Similarly Nominet's *retail* pricing for .co.uk is £80+vat (94£) so they don't compete with their tag-holder members

Same goes for lots of registrars

If you're selling domains as a business you want a *reseller* account rather than paying *retail* pricing - just as if you tins of baked-beans - you'd buy them *wholesale* from the distributor, not one at a time *retail* from Tesco's

:p

Also take a look at OnlineNIC.