If you acquire a web hosting server with the purpose to start your own website hosting company and to resell packages to various people, you may also need to sell domains, so as to give your clients the option to acquire everything they want for their new website from just a single place. To become a licensed registrar involves thousands of dollars and a considerable amount of documentation, so the easiest solution would be to register for a domain reseller account with a pre-existing registrar company. Your reseller site will be linked to that account by using the registrar's API. To use this type of account has numerous benefits - your customers can obtain and to control new website names without difficulty; the price for a new registration is lower compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; last but not least you can start reselling immediately. The registrar companies that sell domain reseller accounts in most cases ask for some money as a deposit.