being a reseller for a domain name?

[Semidevil]

so my current domain name, godaddy, sent me an email, saying that for 99 dollars per year, I can be their reseller for any of these items:

Domains (.COM, .NET, .ORG, .US, .BIZ, .INFO and more)
Hosting, spam-protected email, web site builders
Secure SSL Certificates, merchant accounts, search engine tools
Private registrations, file encryption and shredding software and MORE!


Anybody have experience in doing these things? How does it work? What would the reseller need to do to make money, and any comments?

 

[iwearnosox]

<insert rossman here>

 

[DeviousTrap]

They are probably promoting their Wild West Domains site.

I highly recommend enom who lets you brand your own whois info and stuff.

Only thing about WWD is that I belive they give you a ready made site with built in order system and everything. With enom everything is up to you to design.

 

[Semidevil]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
They are probably promoting their Wild West Domains site.

I highly recommend enom who lets you brand your own whois info and stuff.

Only thing about WWD is that I belive they give you a ready made site with built in order system and everything. With enom everything is up to you to design.

a couple of questions:

is this 99/year a good deal?

is this type of business something that has a potential to make a profit(not looking for big profit, I will still keep my day job)

what is needed from me, in terms of manpower in order to run this type of business?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I'm using directi.com, no fees of that sort

 

[Semidevil]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I'm using directi.com, no fees of that sort

so how is it going for you? do you mind telling me your experiences?

 

[DaveSimmons]

An extremely crowded field, and dot-com mania is long gone.

Unless you're also selling hosting you're competing against the person's hosting company as well as all the registration companies like GoDaddy itself.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Semidevil

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I'm using directi.com, no fees of that sort

so how is it going for you? do you mind telling me your experiences?

YGPM in a minute or two

Edit: Couldn't send a PM

Can you enable P M's?

 

[DeviousTrap]

AgaBooga, why not share your experienced in this thread?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
<insert rossman here>

RossMAN's forum: http://forums.gottadeal.com

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Uh... that's not bad for a reseller's account.

 

[Semidevil]

crap, 900 posts, and I still dont know how activate PM's...uh...can you email me your info? thanx....
sorry

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
AgaBooga, why not share your experienced in this thread?

Good point

Heh, I was just going to say that I haven't used directi yet, just signed up not too long ago

I'm getting everything setup to work, but I was reccomended it on wht forums. I'll let you guys know how it is once I get some time with it in use

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
An extremely crowded field, and dot-com mania is long gone.

Unless you're also selling hosting you're competing against the person's hosting company as well as all the registration companies like GoDaddy itself.

Agreed.

I have an eNom resellers account from DomainResell.biz

I pay $7.95/yr and charge my clients $14.95/yr pocketing the difference