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What is the cheapest registrar which allows reselling?




Posted by dabystru, 05-11-2001, 09:55 AM
Browsing through this forum I did not find a registrar cheapper than GoDaddy (whom I used for registration of my domains), but I don't like paying $99 in advance to start reselling. Anyone cheapper than them with reseller program?

Posted by Mivo, 05-11-2001, 11:06 AM
Try enom.com.

Posted by avara, 05-12-2001, 06:20 AM
What are your experiences with eNom? I was considering going with Dotster, but they charge $12 per domain name if you are a reseller -- which is cheap, but not cheap enough.

Posted by Walter, 05-12-2001, 06:41 AM
Dotster is not the cheapest, thats true, but Dotsters interface is good and all is working fast for me...

Posted by atiep, 05-12-2001, 08:36 AM
http://www.opensrs.net http://www.dotregistrars.com

Posted by thomas830, 05-12-2001, 11:04 AM
As Mivo said, try enom.com, they offer domain names for $8.95, they even offer billing solution. Thomas

Posted by rockergrrl, 05-12-2001, 11:26 AM
With Enom you have to purchase your domains up front in bulk... Here's the info I got from them a couple weeks ago... ------------------------------------ Hello, and thank you for your inquiry. I have attached word documents which outline our Reseller program, the benefits, pricing and how to set up your account. You will also find a Reseller Agreement for your review. Once you fax this document back to us with your eNom LOGIN name, we can convert your account and will email you with additional helpful instructions. As a reseller, you now have the ability to sell dot-cc names through the eNom API or RegistryRocket program. Our RegistryRocket program is a customizable e-commerce web page. You give your site a name, upload a logo (or not), and set the pricing. We take care of the website hosting and merchant processing. We also offer VeriSign Server IDs, which give you everything you need to secure your site and instill confidence to your customers to buy online. If you are ONLY going to use our RegistryRocket program to register domain names, the registration fee is $8.95 with a deposit of $89. These funds can be applied to transfers or renewals. If you are going to use our scripts and host your own site, chose from three domain pricing programs below: Our price to you is $8.95 per domain name when you make a non-refundable deposit for 50 names ($450). With a non-refundable deposit for 250 names ($1985), we reduce your price to $7.95 per name. The best value is with a non-refundable deposit for 1000 ($6950). The price per domain is discounted to $6.95 each. We have many services that are included in domain services rate, such as our automated registration software which you can customize. Domain Name Servers are available, along with URL Redirect without additional charges. Changing name servers and Email forwarding are provided free of charge. There are no hidden prices. We are available by email or telephone and provide troubleshooting and domain maintenance without a fee. Please note, all pricing is subject to change without notice. These rates may not be available if a rate increase occurs prior to setting up your reseller account. ------------------------------------ That should answer your questions about Enoms procedures...

Posted by Mivo, 05-12-2001, 11:31 AM
At one time enom.com offered $6.95 per domain reseller price. What's good with them is their retail price is high at $30 per domain so you will not be apprehensive that people find that you resell with them. GoDaddy's pricing is tight for a reseller (not mentioning the $99 setup) and almost always people would easily discover that you resell with them with the type of interface that they give you.

Posted by Mivo, 05-12-2001, 11:37 AM
This is a policy that took effect very recently I think in less than two weeks. Previous to that no deposit was required.

Posted by determinist, 05-12-2001, 02:33 PM
http://www.1planetdomain.com/ http://powerpipe.com/ Here's some more but i'm not sure how it works.

Posted by cabalstudios, 05-12-2001, 09:21 PM
http://www.gkg.net

Posted by TheOp, 05-13-2001, 11:29 PM
http://www.stargateinc.com

Posted by JBIZ718, 05-14-2001, 07:15 AM
I would say go with www.godaddy.com There are no upfront prices as a basic client of theres. For $99 they will give you a branded solution and domains for $.25 under resale value. We use them, and there interface rocks. Never had any problems with them Joe

Posted by GordonH, 05-14-2001, 08:23 AM
http://www.stargateinc.com Quoted us an absurd $6.50 per domain based on the quantity we currently buy from OpenSRS. Stargate pay $6 to register those domains and by the time they pay the CC commission there will be zero profit for them. Again, you have to pay up front. Its very, very tempting to switch to them as we provide our own DNS already and at $6.50 we could sell at sub $10, make as much profit as we currently are per domain and probably sell a lot more of them as a result. very, very, very tempting........ Gordon

Posted by dotcomguy, 05-14-2001, 12:13 PM
I'm curious. Why would you do business with a company that isn't making any profit? What are you going to do when they go bankrupt and close up shop? (FYI: Your estimate of no profit is close, but in reality they are actualy losing money on those domains.....other business expenses must be factored in as well)

Posted by Jedito, 05-14-2001, 01:45 PM
http://www.RegisterEngine.com

Posted by determinist, 05-14-2001, 02:30 PM
Is there other registrars that offers full control settings and mutiple feature such as forwardings.. except Enom?

Posted by Mivo, 05-14-2001, 08:24 PM
http://directnic.com

Posted by spongebob, 05-16-2001, 02:42 PM
N@meIT (nameit.net)

Posted by MadCool, 05-16-2001, 03:06 PM
So IS anyone reselling for Go Daddy? And how is their service? Also How much should one charge nowadays for a domain?

Posted by GordonH, 05-19-2001, 03:50 AM
Actually they do make a profit on their other sales. I guess that very few go through at $6.50 as you need to commit a lot of cash to get them at that price. Their retail proce is $10 which is higher than Godaddy and some others. The only drawback is that there is currently no API and they have disabled the unbranded login. The advantage is - we can retain admin control over the domains. We already use a different forwarding and DNS service that the end users have access to, but given the large number of malicious ("I fancy a free domain") chargebacks we are getting we need to be able to disable domains which are not paid for. Opensrs is wise open to abuse because as soon as the passwords go to the registrant the reseller loses all control over the domain. Every day I see sites with domains which were stolen from us and in spite of heated and complex discussions with OpenSRS they are unwilling to allow us control over unpaid domains. They are willing to disable them under particular conditions, but its not really very easy and not good enough. That said, we will continue with OpenSRS for a lot of our domain registrations and Use stargateinc for our Ecalpemos.com brand and domains which we register for hosting clients. We have also decided to stop using OpenSRS for .uk registrations because of the extreme difficulties caused by IPSTAG transfers. We have applied for our own IPSTAG. It prices about $1000 which had put me off, but as we then get the .uk domains for 5 pounds for 2 years we should recoup that investment quite quickly. Gordon

Posted by thomas830, 05-20-2001, 06:00 AM
Dtwebworks resells for GoDaddy, check this out http://www.affordabledomain.net/ Thomas Last edited by Chicken; 07-23-2002 at 12:37 AM.

Posted by Ideasmiths, 05-20-2001, 11:22 PM
Hi all, I tried to register two domains through them for the past 3 days and have tried numerous time. Everytime after I filled in all the information until the last form, there was an error. I have filled in every fields but no dice. Also, when I checked their verisign link, it says expired. Tried to post a question in their support forum but couldn't get in because I could enter my ID, but there is no password field. So everytime I clicked the login button, the dread 'user/password combo' type of message blocked me. Anyone experiencing this problem? Thank you

Posted by cbaker17, 05-20-2001, 11:28 PM
We are an affiliate of them, and use the same links and such as them, and I havent had any customers complain???

Posted by dotcomguy, 05-22-2001, 12:34 PM
Another curiosity. Why should the "reseller" have control over the domain name? The reseller does not own the domain, they only sold it. If you want control over the domain, then list yourselves as the owner (Registrant), admin, tech, and billing contact of the domain name. Of course, this would piss off your customers....... If you're selling hosting with your domains, then include the price of the domain in the hosting. If you are selling them seperately, make it clear that they are non-refundable (most Registrars provide you with a Registration agremment - it's in there! Many cc companies will honour this if the client is just trying to get out of the domain - if they're card was truly stolen, then you're out of luck). Knowing the hoops you had to go through to use OpenSRS, I'm not suggesting you throw away that time (money) and effort, however, based on your concerns, you may want to look at other Registrars. There ARE other reseller programs that will solve most of these concerns.

Posted by thesmallguyshost, 05-22-2001, 09:21 PM
Stargate does have an API solution. For around $450 you get domains for $7.50. There interface is easy to use. I haven't seen godaddys.com reseller panel but the panel that end users SUCKs. I just registered a domain today with godaddy just to check them out. It took forever. Since I registered for the hosting customer I listed them as registrant.. all other links i had to fill in manually. TOO much typing. Stargate is quick, fast.. and even if you don't want to pay a lot up front for wholesale costs, you can still register domains as an enduser and if you regsiter 2 or more domains at a time you get them for $8! $8 each for end user costs... to just a minimum of 2 at a time. Robin



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