When you get a web hosting server with the purpose to start your individual hosting company and to resell plans to other people, you may also wish to sell domain names, to give your customers the chance to purchase everything they want for their new site from a single place. Being a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars along with a lot of documentation, so the simplest solution is to sign up for a domain name reseller account with a pre-existing registrar company. Your reseller website will be connected to that account through the registrar's API. Using this kind of account has numerous advantages - all your customers will be able to obtain and to control new domains effortlessly; the price for a new registration will be lower when compared to what you would have to pay as an end customer; also you will be able to start reselling at once. The registrar businesses that sell domain reseller accounts usually want a certain amount of money as a deposit.