CentralNic Reseller .com, $ 13.82/yr. on Domains

.com has been added on Aug 22, 2026

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire TransferCheck Payments
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	DNS
✍️ Support Options :	EmailPhone / Toll-Free
⚑ Targeting :	DE ES UK US
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

See also initial .com plan location on their website!

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*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

CentralNic Reseller is a business-to-business domain and internet-services platform operated by Key-Systems GmbH (key-systems.net). Its history began in 1998, when Alexander Siffrin founded Key-Systems in Friedrichsthal, Germany. The business became a GmbH and obtained ICANN accreditation in 2000, then launched RRPproxy in 2001. RRPproxy became CentralNic Reseller in October 2022, so the present brand is newer than the underlying registrar operation. CentralNic acquired the KeyDrive group, including Key-Systems, on August 2, 2018. The parent changed its name from CentralNic Group PLC to Team Internet Group PLC (teaminternet.com) in September 2023; it is based in London, United Kingdom and trades on AIM under TIG.

This is not a consumer domain shop. The platform is built for hosting companies, web agencies, managed-service providers, corporate-domain specialists, investors and accredited registrars. Private consumers in the European Union are not accepted. Normal entry requires a business account, registrar details, an initial EUR 75 balance and account-manager verification. The commercial qualification is usually 100 new registrations within the first year or the transfer of 100 existing domains. That threshold is reasonable for an active reseller but excessive for someone managing only a few personal names.

The principal service is domain registration, combining wholesale registration, renewal, transfer, restore and portfolio management across generic, country-code, geographic and specialized namespaces. Catalog totals are not perfectly synchronized. The main service overview refers to more than 1,200 extensions and web products; newer reseller and REST specifications use more than 1,900 TLD and second-level-domain options; the knowledge base indexes 1,298 TLD entries. Corporate scale figures have the same timing issue: one company profile records more than 20,000 partners in over 125 countries and 7.8 million managed domains, while newer product information uses more than 10,000 active partners and more than 10 million domains. The numbers confirm substantial scale, but they should be treated as different operational snapshots rather than one current count.

Extension-specific documentation is unusually detailed. A .com name can be registered or renewed for one to ten years, may contain three to 63 characters and supports IPv6, DNSSEC, internationalized names and WHOIS privacy. There are no registrant restrictions. Transfers use an authorization code between eight and 32 characters, normally complete in five days and add a renewal year. New registrations have a 60-day transfer lock. The expiry path includes a 35-day auto-renew grace period and a 30-day redemption period, with deletion scheduled 35 days after expiry. One to 13 nameservers can be assigned, and registration and WHOIS operations work in real time. This degree of lifecycle detail matters when a reseller must automate renewal, restore and transfer behavior across registries with different rules.

Domain migration covers portfolio consolidation and coordinated transfers, including collections containing tens of thousands of names. Expiring inventory can enter Afternic auctions, while ParkingCrew supplies domain monetization within the Team Internet group. Registry Account Management, or RAM, lets an accredited registrar retain its own registry credentials while using the Key-Systems platform, compliance processes and operational tooling. This arrangement is valuable for registrars that want direct registry relationships without maintaining a separate technical integration for every extension.

Brand protection is broader than ordinary registrar lock. Trademark Clearinghouse services use Key-Systems' accredited TMCH-agent status and include Sunrise processing. AdultBlock can prevent matching terms from being registered across adult-oriented namespaces for as long as ten years. GlobalBlock and GlobalBlock+ extend defensive blocking to nearly 600 participating extensions for terms of one to three years. Registry Lock applies multi-factor controls to sensitive changes: an instruction from the customer and authorization at registry level are required before designated CentralNic personnel execute the request. A trustee service provides local presence for selected country-code extensions with residency conditions.

KeyDNS is included with registered names and can also serve external domains. Its Anycast network uses more than 40 nameservers, nodes across five continents and separate cloud environments. Capabilities include DNSSEC, IPv6, secondary DNS, hidden-primary operation, real-time updates and DDoS protection. Each domain registered through the platform receives two million DNS queries per month without an extra DNS charge, while external domains can be added for a fee. The earlier unicast nameservers were retired on November 29, 2024, following migration to the global Anycast system. The service can therefore act as the primary authoritative layer or as a distributed secondary layer that keeps the origin nameserver hidden.

SSL certificates are supplied by DigiCert and Sectigo. The DigiCert range also covers the GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL brands. Available validation levels include DV, OV and EV, with wildcard and multi-domain or SAN variants. Ordering, issuance and reissue can be handled through the panel or API and passed through subreseller accounts. DigiCert products use encryption up to 256 bits and 2048-bit keys, support internationalized domains and may allow as many as 24 SAN entries on selected OV and EV certificates. Public certificate prices are not available, so the exact reseller cost depends on account terms.

Hosting is present but is less transparent than the domain catalog. cPanel hosting can be provisioned from the account or API, with locations and packages returned by the hosting availability command and service periods extending to 12 months. Functions include webmail, WebFTP, SSL/TLS-secured IMAP, POP and SMTP, CalDAV, addon domains and subdomains. Virtual servers are API-driven and use resource classes named 512, 1024 and 2048. They can be ordered for one, three or six months and include an IP address and VNC access. Neither range has a complete public price and resource matrix, so a reseller must confirm the current account-level catalog before committing a retail offer.

Automation is a major strength. Seven gateway families are available: REST, EPP, SOAP, XML-RPC, XRRP, HTTPS and SMTP. The modern REST API follows OpenAPI 3.0 and handles domains, DNS, certificates, aftermarket, account, pricing and billing operations. Authentication uses HTTP Basic or JWT bearer credentials over HTTPS, and an OT&E sandbox allows testing before production. Standards-based EPP supports registrar-oriented integration, while the older gateways preserve compatibility with existing systems. Free modules for WHMCS cover registrar actions, SSL, domain import, DNS and migrations. Blesta modules cover registration, certificates, lock status, authorization codes, nameservers and WHOIS. HEXONET is a sister reseller brand within the same operating heritage rather than a separate component required for CentralNic Reseller service.

The interface and documentation are available in English, German and Spanish. The responsive white-label control panel works on desktop and mobile and unifies domains, contact handles, nameservers, DNS, accounts, hosting, SSL, TMCH and aftermarket functions. Multi-level subreseller support allows a customer to operate branded downstream channels. Retail pricing, end-customer billing and storefront design remain the reseller's responsibility, which preserves commercial control but adds work compared with a ready-made retail registrar.