If you buy a hosting server with the purpose to start your own web hosting company and to resell packages to various other people, you may also want to sell domain names, so that you can give your customers the option to get everything they need for their new Internet site from one place. To be a certified registrar involves thousands of dollars as well as a lot of documentation, so the simplest solution is to sign up for a domain name reseller account with a pre-existing registrar company. Your reseller Internet site will be linked to that account through the registrar's API. To use this type of account has a number of advantages - your customers will be able to get and to manage new domains without any difficulty; the cost of a new registration will be lower as compared to what you would have to spend as an end customer; and you're able to start reselling at once. The registrar companies which supply domain reseller accounts usually require an amount of money as a deposit.