Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Running a Web Hosting Business : Starting up, advice needed.

[Tjobbe]

Hey guys, I ve jsut come across a web hosting domain and have found a reasonablu good and low cost reseller.

Can anyone here reccomend to me a domain name reseller plan anywhere? would you reccomend this?

Thanks!

[Groovy]

Just look around... and think of the profit you can make... If you buy a package for 40 dollar/month and you have only 2gig webspace & 20 gig data transfer, you cant offer really cheap plans then. Cause why should a customer buy a plan by you, if they can get cheaper and better plans somewhere else!

[Tjobbe]

i got a 404 on your profile's web site link.: http://www.west-side.net/


thanks for that, i have aready found a domain name reseller im pretty sure i will be using (very good value for money) but what I'm after is a domain name reseller, i.e so i can sell domain names on my web site!

Tjobbe

[Groovy]

Originally posted by Groovy
Just look around... and think of the profit you can make... If you buy a package for 40 dollar/month and you have only 2gig webspace & 20 gig data transfer, you cant offer really cheap plans then. Cause why should a customer buy a plan by you, if they can get cheaper and better plans somewhere else!

I know im working on it... it has something to do with the name servers!

[KIA-Joe]

A good domain name reseller is Enom. http://www.enom.com/

[Laws]

It depends on the volume of orders you're expecting. If you can afford it / believe the investment will pay off an account with godaddy.com reseller program may be a good idea...

[gghosting]

Enom.com is good, I buy my domains from omnis.com for $7.95 each.

[blackworm]

try tucows, many people resell their services and I've personally never had any trouble with a tucows reseller, unlike godaddy where I always have trouble.

[ericabiz]

Originally posted by Groovy
Cause why should a customer buy a plan by you, if they can get cheaper and better plans somewhere else!

Yeah, no doubt! I heard that's why Rackspace went out of business... they just couldn't compete with $50 "fully managed!!!111" servers from Managed.com and Nocster.

</sarcasm>

[astutiumRob]

I'm after is a domain name reseller, i.e so i can sell domain names on my web site!

depends on if you ant to integrate it into your site (drams with enom) or send them to a regsitration system which (enom registry rocket)

if you want to integrate it to your site you'll either need an existing script which interafces to some registrars api -
drams for enom seems to be the one of choice
zaygo is one with plugins for lots of registars
write your own is a possibility

then you also need a reseller account with your chosen registrar, we use enom and are very happy with it, opensrs is another good one people rave about, several are to be avoided - use the search link above or wade through some topics on the domain forums

[WHRKit]

Tucows services are actually pretty good. I only switched to Enom because of the price (I have a $7.95 reseller account though). Enoms customer support has been very quick and fast. Both places are good for resellers.

[Vinayak_Sharma]

Try directi.com for domain reselling, signup is free, they provide hosted account and API both for you to use for free, and you can even make reseller under you with them, support is good too.