If you purchase a web hosting server with the intention to start your personal web hosting company and to resell plans to various people, you may as well wish to sell domains, to give your clients the opportunity to purchase everything they want for their new site from just a single place. Becoming an accredited registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as a lot of documentation, so the most effective solution is to sign up for a domain reseller account with an existing registrar company. Your reseller site will be linked to that account through the registrar's API. Using such an account has lots of benefits - your customers will be able to buy and to take care of new website names without any difficulty; the price for a new registration will be lower when compared to what you would have to spend as an end customer; and you will be able to start reselling without delay. The registrar businesses which offer domain reseller accounts generally want some money as a deposit.