If you get a server with the purpose to start your own web hosting company and to resell packages to various other people, you may also need to sell domains, to give your customers the chance to get everything they want for their new site from a single place. Becoming a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars plus a considerable amount of documentation, so the simplest solution is to register for a domain reseller account with a current registrar company. Your reseller site will be connected to that account through the registrar's API. To use this type of account has a lot of benefits - your customers are able to acquire and to manage new domain names with ease; the cost of a new registration will be lower when compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; and you're able to start reselling immediately. The registrar companies that provide domain reseller accounts often ask for an amount of money as a deposit.