DNSimple Domain Reseller Advantages

DNSimple provides you with the expertise to become a domain name reseller, bringing you all the tools you need to automate your domain management for a streamlined, simplified experience. Just activate your DNSimple account, plug into our API, and create recurring revenue.

We offer a robust reseller experience for everyone — whether you're just getting started or you've been a reseller for a while. In addition to being an ICANN accredited registrar with 500+ TLDs, we offer a rock-solid API, strong security options, high-volume discounts, and top-tier customer support, along with making your DNS and domain management easier than ever.

Let's talk more about the advantages we offer and dive in to why you should choose DNSimple for your domain reselling business.

DNSimple reseller benefits overview

What are resellers?

Domain resellers buy domains from an accredited registrar (that's us) and sell them to customers as a service. You can set your own prices for domains and sell additional DNSimple services under your own brand. You also receive a portion of domain sales after orchestrating the transaction between the registry and the buyer.

DNSimple enables resellers to efficiently manage and scale their business. We'll help simplify your operations, reducing the amount of time and effort spent launching your business. We handle the large investments in infrastructure, take care of all the technical aspects, and provide all the resources of an ICANN accredited registrar, so you can focus on your business and not worry about the backend maintenance.

Resell domains with DNSimple

You don't need to be an expert in domains or DNS to become a reseller — DNSimple provides everything you need to deliver an exceptional customer experience. With our simple domain management, UI, and UX, resellers can focus on their business instead of fighting with tech all day.

Competitive pricing and vendor neutrality

Resellers benefit from:

• High-volume discounts for domain name registrations, transfers, renewals, SSL certificates, and zones.
• Multiple billing options and flexibility in payment options, including our digital wallet for easier recurring payments.
• No vendor lock-in — we believe in using the best tools to get the job done, so you can point your name servers wherever you choose. If you want to keep your domain registered elsewhere and just use our DNS resolver or email forwarding, you can use our name servers.

Priority support and a dedicated account manager

When you migrate to DNSimple, you'll have help every step of the way from your dedicated account manager, plus assistance from one of our expert engineers.

You'll also get priority support, with responses within an hour on business days, straight from our experts. Along with our in-house support team, you'll have access to our engineers for all your technical questions and fast-tracked feature requests.

Rock-solid API and automation tools

DNSimple's API is one of the best on the market, because it's maintained and documented by our developers. It has official clients and support for Javascript, Go, Elixir, Ruby, .Net, Rust, PHP, Python, and Java, so you can get your DNS hosting and domain registration up and running quickly. We provide so many examples in our API client libraries, you'll be ready to resell domains in no time.

Our integrations with services like Azure DNS and CoreDNS allow resellers to manage domains from multiple providers in one place. Use DNSimple's Domain Control Plane to clarify your entire domain and DNS portfolio with domain, DNS, and certificate management in a single dashboard — even if these resources aren't hosted by DNSimple. It's all manageable through a unified API and UI.

Easily manage your DNS infrastructure, and leverage the advantages of infrastructure as code (IaC) with DNSimple's Terraform Provider. Set up the required records, and build, change, and version your infrastructure safely and efficiently.

Multi-account management

Multi-account management supports scenarios where you have different legal entities under your company, like clients or partners, who require individual DNSimple accounts. For example, if your contract supports 1000 domains, you can split this, placing 500 domains in one entity under your company and 500 in another. Each entity has its own settings for billing, company information, and payment methods, allowing segmentation within your account.

Large selection of TLDs

We offer 500+ TLDs, including ccTLDs, tried-and-true .com, .net, and .org, and business-specific gTLDs like .accountant and .photography. If there's ever a TLD you want that we don't offer, just let us know, and we'll add it.

We're an accredited ICANN registrar, and we work with other ICANN licensed partners to offer domain registrations for your business, so your clients can easily find the TLD that's right for them.

We also offer free WHOIS privacy on all applicable domains, so you can protect your personal information.

Reliability and security

DNSimple offers reliable uptime and robust security for your domains that lets you easily maintain your brand reputation and add value to your offering. Our security features include:

• Multiple points of presence around the world.
• A Service Level Agreement that guarantees quality, availability, and responsibility from our service, so you know your domains will stay up and running.
• DDoS defense that sits in front of all our name servers and continuously analyzes incoming traffic.
• DNSSEC protection that safeguards your domains from DNS spoofing, maintaining the integrity of your critical DNS records.
• Secondary DNS, so you can set up a redundancy plan that ensures your domains continue resolving if there's ever an outage.

You can also enhance your account security by mandating every team member have MFA or SSO enabled to access your domains. Our Domain Access Control feature gives you fine-grained permissions to decide who has access to which domains, and whether they have full or partial access.

Vanity name servers

When you want your servers to appear branded while still using a DNS hosting provider, you want vanity name servers. They offer multiple advantages, including:

• Extending branding to the technology stack.
• A professional appearance when handing out target name servers.
• The ability to make a single IP change at the name server level, so you can automatically convert customers to a new platform in a single action.

For more details on why vanity name servers are helpful for large organizations, read this post.

Choose the best reseller partner

You know that you've succeeded in choosing the best reseller partner when you don't have to waste your time with complicated DNS and domain management. Read more about what we've done for other resellers and enterprises in our case studies.

Integrating with our API is fast, and with an engineering team helping you along the way, you'll be reselling domains in no time. Contact our sales team, and we'll be happy to walk you through the process and answer any questions you might have.

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Anthony Eden

I break things so Simone continues to have plenty to do. I occasionally have useful ideas, like building a domain and DNS provider that doesn't suck.