If you obtain a web hosting server with the purpose to start your personal web hosting company and to resell plans to various people, you may as well want to sell domain names, so that you can give your clients the option to purchase everything they want for their new site from a single place. To become an accredited registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as a lot of documentation, so the simplest solution is to register for a domain name reseller account with an existing registrar company. Your reseller Internet site will be linked to that account by using the registrar's API. Employing this kind of account has a large number of pros - all of your customers are able to acquire and to control new domain names effortlessly; the price of a new registration will be lower when compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; last but not least you are able to start reselling instantly. The registrar businesses which offer domain reseller accounts in most cases ask for an amount of money as a deposit.