When you obtain a hosting server with the purpose to start your individual website hosting company and to resell plans to various people, you may also need to sell domain names, so as to give your clients the option to buy everything they want for their new website from just a single place. Being a licensed registrar involves thousands of dollars plus a considerable amount of documentation, so the easiest solution would be to sign up for a domain reseller account with a current registrar company. Your reseller website will be linked to that account by using the registrar's API. To use this type of account has many different pros - all of your customers can purchase and to manage new website names without any difficulty; the cost of a new registration will be lower as compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; what's more you are able to start reselling immediately. The registrar businesses which offer domain reseller accounts generally want a certain amount of money as a deposit.