: Difference between domain reseller and domain registrar? I have heard terms "domain reseller" and "domain registrar" and that "domain registrar" is better than "domain reseller". What is the difference

@Courtney195

Registrars are the companies that actually buy licenses to sell TLD's at a registry (those who manage the DNS server for a TLD) such as Verisign for .com. Domain resellers, often hosting companies, resell these TLD's from a registrar as it's much cheaper - otherwise hosting companies would have to buy licenses to sell TLD's themselves, which is extremely expensive.

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@Bryan171

Being a domain name registrar, I can confirm there is no requirements for networks, DNS servers and so on.


A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity that
manages the reservation of Internet domain names. A domain name
registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD)
registry and/or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar
A reseller is someone who simply resells the domain registration service, they are not domain name registrars themselves.

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@Alves908

Domain registrars are required to have certain infrastructure elements such as networks, DNS servers, support, and so on. Resellers resell through registrars and are not required to have anything much at all. Think of a reseller as an affiliate.

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