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index > domain articles 2008 > Make Money As A Domain Name Reseller
The fun thing about the technology age is that the internet has given us some fun, easy ways to make money from our easy chairs—like being a domain name reseller.
What is a domain name reseller? Just what it sounds like. A domain name reseller is a person who sells domain names. Well, kind of. It would be more accurate to call a domain name reseller a domain name registration reseller. Now we're just being confusing. Let's explain.
No one, even a domain name reseller, can actually buy a domain name exclusively. What a site owner or domain name registration reseller actually does is buy domain name rights—the right to use the domain name for a period of time. So what a domain name registration reseller does is buy domain name rights, then sell their rights.
You see, to 'own' a domain name, or more accurately the right to use a domain name, you have to register it. Registered domain names only last for a specified period of time, and then they expire. To keep rights when you buy domain name rights, the owner has to renew the rights before they expire. As long as the owner keeps renewing, they maintain the rights to the domain name. Renewal is as close to ownership as a domain name registration reseller can get. What a domain name registration reseller really sells is the current registration.
A domain name registration reseller will buy domain name rights to a number of names that they expect will be in demand in the near future. A quality domain name reseller may happen across a proven successful, in demand domain name and buy it if an unfortunate owner lets it expire. That's kind of tough these days because every knowledgeable domain name registration reseller knows what the good, high dollar figure names are, and they don't let them lapse so easily.
But there are names that have yet to prove their worth, and it is worth it to buy domain name rights to these names and hold them until demand rises for them. The situation is not so futile as it might seem. The web is getting increasingly crowded, which means the best, most obvious names are gone, and demand will turn to the next best things. If you are smart about what might become popular in the future, or if you claim names under other extensions, you can set yourself up for some fast and easy cash.
The good news is that domain name registration is cheap, and the cost of the actual registration does not go up like the price of a good name. For an investment as little as eight dollars per name, you could buy domain name rights, hold them, and then sell them when demand increases. You can become a domain name registration reseller through an affiliate program, or you can buy domain name rights yourself, register them, and sell them without sharing profits with affiliates as an independent domain name reseller.
