If you obtain a website hosting server with the idea to start your individual hosting company and to resell plans to various people, you may also want to sell domains, to give your customers the opportunity to purchase everything they need for their new site from a single place. Becoming a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as tons of documentation, so the most convenient solution is to sign up for a domain name reseller account with an existing registrar company. Your reseller site will be linked to that account by using the registrar's API. To use such an account has many benefits - all your customers are able to buy and to control new domains without any difficulty; the price of a brand new registration is lower when compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; last but not least you will be able to start reselling immediately. The registrar businesses that provide domain reseller accounts generally require a certain amount of money as a deposit.