If you buy a server with the idea to start your own web hosting company and to resell plans to various people, you may as well wish to sell domain names, to give your customers the chance to acquire everything they want for their new site from just a single place. Being a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars along with tons of documentation, so the most convenient solution would be to sign up for a domain reseller account with an existing registrar company. Your reseller Internet site will be connected to that account by using the registrar's API. Using such an account has a large number of pros - all your customers can obtain and to take care of new website names without any difficulty; the price of a new registration is lower compared to what you would have to pay as an end customer; last but not least you can start reselling immediately. The registrar companies that supply domain reseller accounts often need a certain amount of money as a deposit.