If you buy a web hosting server with the idea to start your personal web hosting company and to resell plans to other people, you may also wish to sell domain names, in order to give your customers the chance to buy everything they need for their new site from one place. Being an accredited registrar involves thousands of dollars along with a considerable amount of documentation, so the simplest solution is to register for a domain reseller account with an existing registrar company. Your reseller site will be connected to that account via the registrar's API. Using this type of account has many different benefits - your customers will be able to purchase and to manage new domains comfortably; the price for a new registration will be lower when compared to what you would need to pay as an end customer; and you will be able to start reselling at once. The registrar businesses that sell domain reseller accounts often require some money as a deposit.