If you buy a server with the purpose to start your own web hosting company and to resell plans to other people, you may also want to sell domain names, to give your clients the chance to purchase everything they need for their new site from a single place. To be a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as a considerable amount of documentation, so the simplest solution is to register for a domain reseller account with a current registrar company. Your reseller Internet site will be connected to that account by using the registrar's API. To use this type of account has lots of pros - all your customers will be able to acquire and to control new domains with ease; the price of a brand new registration will be lower as compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; what's more you will be able to start reselling at once. The registrar businesses which provide domain reseller accounts in most cases want a certain amount of money as a deposit.