If you get a hosting server with the idea to start your own hosting company and to resell plans to various other people, you may also need to sell domain names, to give your customers the opportunity to obtain everything they want for their new website from a single place. Being a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as tons of documentation, so the most convenient solution would be to register for a domain name reseller account with a current registrar company. Your reseller site will be connected to that account via the registrar's API. To use this type of account has numerous advantages - all of your customers will be able to obtain and to control new domain names with ease; 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 can start reselling instantly. The registrar businesses that sell domain reseller accounts generally need an amount of money as a deposit.