How to set up an online business selling domain names

Domains? Internet names? Online business? It's easy to set up a business selling domain names if you use eNom, a domain registrar. They offer an excellent free API that allows you to set up a customizable business and win over your customers. It's one of the easiest and fastest ways to set up a business. You'll be able to sell .COM, .NET and dozens of other products for websites and online services.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet access
• computer
• basic computer skills

1. Go to www.enom.com and learn about setting up an account.
2. Contact their customer service to help you open an account.
3. Decide if you'll use your own website and register domains through the free API, or if you want to use the turn key solution available to everyone called PDQ. They also have a very simple product called Registry Rocket, but the best deals are available by openning a large account and selling domains with PDQ and the API.
4. Learn about how to register the domains, it's very easy. eNom provides products and services to help your customers set up their own website, have strong Internet security and even provides payment services.
5. Market to your customers. You'll have to compete with the likes of GoDaddy which uses a lot of sex to sell their domains. This may work for you, or you can explore more convential methods of advertising by linking your domains to other products that you sell.
6. With eNom, you can also sell to others that want to open up their own business through you, meaning they'll be one of your resellers. You'll make money every time they sell something, too. It's a fantastic way to use the #1 reseller registrar in the world.

Tips & Warnings

• Learn the rules of TLD's
• Give away free products and try to upsell other products. Abide to bait and switch laws of course!
• Advertise, advertise, advertise!!!
• Don't use some other reseller registrars, their support and API are just not as strong.