The present document discloses a method and apparatus for creating a resource. In the above method, receiving a resource creation request from a transmitting end, herein information carried in the resource creation request carries resource creation information corresponding to a resource to be created; and determining whether a first resource name needs to be reallocated to the resource to be created and creating the resource to be created according to the resource creation information. According to the technical solutions provided by the present document, the management of resource names by a CSE is enhanced, and the uniqueness of the resource names is ensured, consequently the application scenarios of an M2M service provider are expanded, and at the same time the duplicated registration of the same resources is avoided.