When you purchase a server with the idea to start your very own hosting company and to resell packages to various other people, you may also want to sell domains, so as to give your clients the chance to acquire everything they want for their new website from one place. Being a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars along with a lot of documentation, so the easiest solution is to register for a domain reseller account with a pre-existing registrar company. Your reseller website will be linked to that account via the registrar's API. Using such an account has many different benefits - all your customers are able to obtain and to manage new domain names effortlessly; the price of a brand new registration will be lower when compared to what you'd need to pay as an end customer; what's more you are able to start reselling immediately. The registrar companies which sell domain reseller accounts almost always require an amount of money as a deposit.