Domain Name Registration

Business Manager supports integration with a variety of domain registration services. We assume that you have a merchant account with one of the registrars supported by Business Manager. To start selling domain names from this registrar in your online stores, take the following steps:

1. Set up a registrar module and define which domain names you will register with this registrar.

   For each registrar, you should define which top level domains (or TLDs - domain name extensions such as .net or .com) your customers will buy from this registrar. Learn how to configure domain name registrar modules in the section Setting Up Accounts with Registrars. If a TLD that you want to offer is not present in Business Manager, you can add it manually. To find out how to add new TLDs or change the properties of existing ones, refer to the section Managing TLDs.

2. Add a domain registration plan and define which of the supported TLDs you will offer within it.

   To sell domain names, create domain name registration plans on the Plans page. For each plan of this type, select TLDs that you will offer within this plan on the TLDs tab of the plan settings page.

3. Configure hosting offerings for the plan subscribers.

   To increase your sales, you may configure Business Manager so that it will offer your hosting plans to customers that subscribe to the domain name registration plan. For details, see the section Offering Hosting to Domain Name Owners.

4. Define domain registration options for online stores.

   During the domain name ordering process, potential customers are prompted to choose from the three options: purchase a new domain name, transfer an existing one to another registrar, or use an existing domain name. You are able to change the list of available options at the Business Setup > Online Stores > <store name> > Change Settings > Domain Registration/Transfer tab.

   Important: Not all domain registrars support domain transfer. To find out if a particular registrar supports the transfer, contact the registrar's customer support.

Offering Domain Name Registration in the Control Panel

If you offer domain name registration services, Business Manager can help you promote them to your hosting customers. For example, Panel shows customers links that let them register their domain names through your online stores. These links are displayed in the domain names list on the Websites & Domains tab. When a customer follows a link, Panel takes him to the online store where he purchased his hosting subscription, and automatically adds a domain name registration subscription to his cart.

Note: If you have several online stores, the links will lead customers to the online store where they purchased their hosting subscription.

Panel offers customers the opportunity to register only those domain names that were not purchased in your online store, particularly:

• Domain names that customers specify as already existing when purchasing hosting subscriptions.
• Additional domain names that customers create in the Control Panel.

If you have at least one domain name registration plan, Panel will automatically add corresponding links to the Control Panel. If you offer several domain name registration plans in a store, put the plan you want to promote above other plans of this type in the store's plan list. You can find the list on the Offered Plans tab of the store settings page.