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Hey, domain sellers! 👋

We have a special surprise for you.

Continuing from last year (and last week), we have some exciting updates to share with you about NamePros Parking!

First, consider this:

You price your domain name at $2,500. For years, hundreds of interested buyers want to buy it, but the price is too high for them. They don't even try to contact you because they don't realize that the price is negotiable or may change. Years later, you decide to lower the price to $995. How many previously-interested buyers would buy it at this lowered price? You’d never know — until now!

With our new Buy Now options, you can finally contact those previous buyers to increase your sales opportunities. 💸

Here’s how:

Our landers require buyers to confirm their email address before they can see the price. Once confirmed, the price is available to them and their email address is available to you. Simple and effective.

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Now, let’s talk new features!​

  • Buy Now: Add a Buy button with a sales price and payment options for buyers to purchase your domains.
    • Escrow.com (Recommended): Starts an Escrow.com transaction for you and allows the buyer to pay immediately.
    • PayPal: Creates a PayPal transaction for the buyer to pay directly to your PayPal account.
    • Email: You and the buyer use email to choose a payment method (e.g., crypto), discuss lease-to-own (LTO) options, etc.
  • Location: Country, region (e.g., state or province), and locality (e.g., city, town, or village) of your inquirers to help you understand where they are located, the best time to contact them, etc.
  • Bulk Management: Set options on multiple domains at the same time: prices, payment methods, appearance, etc.
  • Exports: Download your inquiries, including buyers’ email addresses, offers, etc. (CSV format.)
  • Domain Verification: Verify your domains by using any of these methods: name servers (NS), CNAME, or TXT records.
  • Supersonic Speed Boost: Our landers already loaded blazingly fast, but now they’re even faster — a powerful increase in performance!
    • For techies: Go, Redis, and Elastic (previously only: PHP and MySQL)

Wait, there’s more!

Tell us the features that you want for NamePros Parking because we’re adding new features all month!

Features coming soon:​

  • Payment Plans: Payment buttons for lease-to-own (LTO) and renting, e.g., “$995/mo for 8 months”
  • ✅ Minimum Offers: Save time by specifying a minimum offer amount to set buyers’ expectations.
  • Portfolio Website: A sharable storefront of the domains in your account with search and filters.
  • Traffic: The number of visitors to parked domains, optionally displayed on your landing pages.
  • ✅ Remove NamePros Branding: An option to remove unnecessary mentions of NamePros from parked pages.
  • ✅ More Landers: Choose from multiple landing pages for various purposes, such as a new Buy Now Optimized lander.
  • File Imports: Add domains to your account and set their prices by uploading spreadsheet files (e.g., .CSV).

PRO TIP: There is a common misconception about how many domain sales happen because of marketplaces. In reality, many sales would still happen (and do happen) without the help of a marketplace, so NamePros is providing a free solution to sell domains and you keep 100% of your profit.


Our for-sale parking service is 100% free:​

  • No upfront fees
  • No monthly fees
  • No commission (0%)
  • No upgraded account necessary
  • 100% of your sales belong to you!

How does all that sound?

Visit namepros.com/parking to get started! 🎉

Tip: Quickly access your parking dashboard using the "Sell" dropdown menu at the top.


Questions? Ask below, or check out our Help Guide for NamePros Parking.



P.S. Our announcement last week was not a prank. Spatial Scrolling™ is real, courtesy of NamePros innovation! 🤯
 
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It allows me to drill down further to determine if some or all of the info provided (name, addy, phone) is accurate/legitimate. It will often be a signal to a large institutional user.
The additional IP address information that you requested should be ready soon, as well.
Their ISP and time zone have been added today. 🕵️‍♂️

There's some more data that we'll add soon.
 
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Could you add an optional search bar that we can turn on or off for each domain that will show us exactly what the visitors are searching for when then visit our domain? If I find out that a lot of the visitors are searching for the same thing, then I can know how to best monetize it and if I know they are mostly in the same geographical area, then I could focus on businesses in that area to market it.
 
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Could you add an optional search bar that we can turn on or off for each domain that will show us exactly what the visitors are searching for when then visit our domain? If I find out that a lot of the visitors are searching for the same thing, then I can know how to best monetize it and if I know they are mostly in the same geographical area, then I could focus on businesses in that area to market it.
Very smart. 👍
 
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When entering my email when getting started I did not use a separate one so the buttons did not appear until I added a separate email a short while ago (it was there in the instructions all the time but I did not give it the attention it deserved). :xf.cool:
Was it because you hadn’t confirmed your parking email yet?

You should be able to set the same email address for parking and the forums, but we do recommend using different ones. However, even if the emails are all the same, they still have to be confirmed individually/separately.

That can cause some confusion, admittedly.
 
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Is there going to be an option of deleting and 'starring' recent inquiries in the parking dashboard?
 
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Thanks for all of the hard work on the landers. Sounds exciting! Regarding the "email before price" issue, I sympathize with these folks.

Our landers require buyers to confirm their email address before they can see the price. Once confirmed, the price is available to them and their email address is available to you. Simple and effective.

Namepros branding is heavy. Fishing for an email to show price, good luck
I don't agree with this.

When I go shopping online I go to a website (so yes, I am serious about buying), place item/s in the cart, and then check shipping costs. If I have to register and/or put my address in FIRST just to getting shipping quote then I just close the tab = NO SALE. Giving my postal/zip code only is fine IF I COULD BE BOTHERED but not the whole lot - email, phone, address, etc.

Every extra step in the path of a sale is just another obstacle for buyers to get through. Why make it harder?

Yep, I suspect you would potentially lose customers that way. After all, one might assume that if the price was very good, that would be shown up front. Some potential buyers might not mind, but why have an obvious barrier up front? Or perhaps offer the option of the contact information submission prior or after seeing the price.
 
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Yep, I suspect you would potentially lose customers that way. After all, one might assume that if the price was very good, that would be shown up front. Some potential buyers might not mind, but why have an obvious barrier up front? Or perhaps offer the option of the contact information submission prior or after seeing the price.
To clarify the above point: consider giving the Domain Seller the OPTION of having on the lander whether the email and other contact info is required before price is presented.

Having the price readily visible on the lander up front still seems like a preferable option to me.
 
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Was it because you hadn’t confirmed your parking email yet?

You should be able to set the same email address for parking and the forums, but we do recommend using different ones. However, even if the emails are all the same, they still have to be confirmed individually/separately.

That can cause some confusion, admittedly.

When I first signed up I used the forum email out of habit. It did not send me a confirmation email but it gave me the ability to add names. It was only after I could not find the 'edit' feature did I realize it might have something to do with not using a different email.

It is better to use a secondary email since it will be shared with potential buyers...can't be too careful in the digital world.
 
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Is there going to be an option of deleting and 'starring' recent inquiries in the parking dashboard?
This type of management is really intended to be handled through your email client/software or a CRM (e.g., Gmail with Streak, Outlook, Pipedrive, or Salesforce).

If we build CRM features into our solution, we probably wouldn’t be able to offer those features for free. Salesforce is a billion dollar company because they provide those features.

With NamePros Parking, you can choose to send your inquiries to any email client or CRM where they can be managed most efficiently there.

We hope this helps.
 
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I suspect you would potentially lose customers that way. After all, one might assume that if the price was very good, that would be shown up front. Some potential buyers might not mind, but why have an obvious barrier up front?
You may be right, but we’re going to analyze the data to find out. This has never been done before for domain sales, and we’re confident that it’ll only help increase sales, but if the data says otherwise, then we’ll surely change it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. It’s appreciated.
 
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This type of management is really intended to be handled through your email client/software or a CRM (e.g., Gmail with Streak, Outlook, Pipedrive, or Salesforce).

If we build CRM features into our solution, we probably wouldn’t be able to offer those features for free. Salesforce is a billion dollar company because they provide those features.

With NamePros Parking, you can choose to send your inquiries to any email client or CRM where they can be managed most efficiently there.

We hope this helps.
Fair comment. Loving the landers so far 👍🏼
 
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@Bravo Mod Team, I just got to 50+ names added and I see that 50 is the limit per page. Can/will that limit be increased in the future? Not a biggie for me, just curious.

FYI, for some of my names, this will be the 4TH move in 6 months due to other marketplaces not listening to valid questions/suggestions.

Thank you for listening to us...long live NP's marketplace! 👏
 
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I see that 50 is the limit per page. Can/will that limit be increased in the future?
Yep, this is already assigned to a developer.

FYI, for some of my names, this will be the 4TH move in 6 months due to other marketplaces not listening to valid questions/suggestions.

Thank you for listening to us...long live NP's marketplace! 👏
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How to create something similar? Is this a plugin or in house dev?
I want to leave Bodis, Dan and others.
 
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Our goal is to make it easy for you to sell domains without being dependent on us: all inquiries (unless you change the default settings) go directly to your email and you can export them.

Give us a try. You won’t regret it!
One of my problem is Escrow not support my country, that is why I fail on some points, I even was not able to integrate Escrow in my own website because of this.
 
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FREE to use??
I feel so guilty to use it for FREE

SO WHAT THE CATCH??
 
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One of my problem is Escrow not support my country, that is why I fail on some points, I even was not able to integrate Escrow in my own website because of this.
We have PayPal integration, too. Does that work for you?

Email is also an option with our Buy Now landers, and then you can arrange payment with the buyer directly.

Is there another payment provider that you’d like us to add?
 
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I get the error message "Something went wrong, please try again! If the issue persists, try reloading the page."
every time I fill out and click the "Start Conversation" or " Show Purchase Price" buttons.
 
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FREE to use??
I feel so guilty to use it for FREE

SO WHAT THE CATCH??
It is FREE NOW but later on there will be a fee to use it.
That how it goes...

"Please upgrade your NP account in order to use the marketplace feature"
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Pay up or contribute. Forget paying just contribute some quality content. That be priceless.
Anyways @Paul nuggies is burping up errors. Wont submit. Will pm screenshot, even have screen recording video
Something went wrong, please try again! If the issue persists, try reloading the page.

How about a message area?
 
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