Howto become a domain name reseller

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@mrdavidlaing:

I'm looking for a 3rd party registrar with a decent API that will allow me to handle ©. Ideally I want something that is easy to integrate into my site, and doesn't try to upsell my customers to 3rd party products.

Any suggestions?

It's not my field, but the "big guys" seem to be Tucows' OpenSRS at http://www.opensrs.com/. I haven't done business with them, but they've been around awhile and they'd probably be first on my list of registrars to look at. -rt

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Thanks for the link to OpenSRS. For later readers of this thread, here are the results of my research:

Registrar ranking: http://www.registrarstats.com/Public/Re … eMain.aspx">http://www.registrarstats.com/Public/RegistrarMarketShareMain.aspx

Interesting services

OpenSRS (tucows)

web 1.0 interface, but advertising web 2.0 coming up. API.

name choosing tool, powered by domainsbot

includes name servers

.com = $10.06 & .co.uk = $6.5 (http://opensrs.com/domains/pricing.html)

Videos - http://blip.tv/search?q=opensrs&x=0&y=0

personal & transparent management ethos

API gets some praise in forums - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=745598

Network Solutions - SRS plus

web 1.0 reseller web interface + API.

.com for $8.45 & .co.uk $7.95 (http://www.srsplus.com/products-service … _tlds.html">http://www.srsplus.com/products-services/tablepricingtlds.html)

http://www.srsplus.com/2008demo.htm

$250 initial deposit

includes name servers

On my work I use openSRS. It's cheap, and it works, but the interface is very confusing. It took some time before I found my way trough it.

For my personal domains, I use http://odrv2.opendomainregistry.net/. Great interface and also very cheap. But that's a dutch only service, I think.

domain reseller includes:

www.opensrs.com

www.resellerclub.com

www.resell.biz

www.enom.com

Hi,

I had the same question years ago but finally I decided to go with resellerclub. It worked very well for me.

You can see an example how it works, here.

I can register a reseller account for you under reseller account, or if you want to do by yourself, you can register here.

Feel free to ask any question, I'll be glad to help.

@jmagnone:

Hi,

I had the same question years ago but finally I decided to go with resellerclub. It worked very well for me.

You can see an example how it works, here.

I can register a reseller account for you under reseller account, or if you want to do by yourself, you can register here.

Feel free to ask any question, I'll be glad to help.

Hi. What is the official website for reseller club? I have tried googling but couldn't find it.

www.resellerclub.com – your Google-fu seems weak.

@kevin316:

@jmagnone:

Hi,

I had the same question years ago but finally I decided to go with resellerclub. It worked very well for me.

You can see an example how it works, here.

I can register a reseller account for you under reseller account, or if you want to do by yourself, you can register here.

Feel free to ask any question, I'll be glad to help.

Hi. What is the official webpage for reseller club? I have tried googling but couldn't find it.
I was also looking for the same.But by doing a simple google search i found the answer.

You may want to look at hexonet.net as well. They have an awesome interface as well as API.

I quite enjoy the pricing from NetEarth One:

http://reseller.netearthone.com/

I haven't tried their API yet, but they do have an HTTP-based API:

http://reseller.netearthone.com/reselle … re&val=api">http://reseller.netearthone.com/reseller.php?action=feature&val=api

http://manage.netearthone.com/kb/answer/744

I am with reseller club too. They are good, I recommend them