What do you think of the idea to become a reseller from a domain registrar (*********.com) that provides this service.
Do you have any personal experience with that?
What pitfalls could I face?

Hi,

There are several Domain Name Providers that offers Reseller Program and in fact some big players are in fact just reseller of enom or other main providers. Check out enom.com also for reseller account.

Regards,
Bobby

Thanks for your reply.
Any other standpoints?

Enom.com comes to mind.

yes Enom is the one you need. I am impressed from their support responses - fast and effective also great management opportunities

End up with a registrar that hires shills?

I think that the any acreditated domain name registrar must have resellers already and at the same time the must something to say you about the services.

I think that the best thing is to get domains from big domain name registrars like *******.com.
But I wouldn't refuse if a host gives me something for free.
How do I make sure that a domain which is offered in **********.com webhosting plan is 100% client-owned?

I only stick with Enom. I admit it I have issues trusting places that I dont know about so if I were to swap to another place out there it would take months of research before I could even narrow down the list before picking one to stick with.

As far as I know dierecti is one of the biggest. But at the same time I heard a lot of negative things about their control panel.

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I think you should give it a shot and also try out enom as well so you can compare and see which suits you the best. There are definitely a lot out there to chose from and enom is definitely one that I've used before.

Chris

I see nothing bad in using hosting services from a domain registrar. *********.com offers 2 months free with annual plans, Free domain name with every package, 10% off for extra domains registration and many other advantages.

Enom is very good in reseller and also the more you put in, the more you domain reg prices will go lower making you better than others. But you also have to provide good support to those who need it.

Directi.com sells domains in bulk onle, as well as Enom.com, you could look into affiliate program from *******.com, I think they offre about 10% from their sales to affiliates.