If you acquire a web hosting server with the idea to start your individual hosting company and to resell packages to other people, you may as well wish to sell domain names, so as to give your customers the opportunity to acquire everything they need for their new site from a single place. To become a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as a considerable amount of documentation, so the most convenient solution would be to sign up for a domain reseller account with a current registrar company. Your reseller site will be linked to that account through the registrar's API. Using such an account has more than a few pros - your customers will be able to get and to control new website names without difficulty; the cost of a brand new registration will be lower when compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; last but not least you are able to start reselling right away. The registrar companies that supply domain reseller accounts generally want some money as a deposit.