news NamePros Landers with Buy Now, Escrow.com integration, and much more

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 Landers!

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 have an option that requires 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. Learn more on DNW.com.

Want to see more styles and options? Visit our live demo domains!

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. using our website's interface or your favorite spreadsheet software (e.g., Google Sheets).
  • Bulk Edit: Export, Edit, and Upload to apply your changes all at once.
• Exports: Download a list of your domains and their settings, customizations, and 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 year!

Features coming soon:​

(Updates: = In progress; = Complete & Available now!)

• Domain Monetization: Earn money from visitors to your domain names.
• Payment Plans: Payment buttons for lease-to-own (LTO) and renting, e.g., “$995/mo for 8 months”
• Account notifications: Inquiry summaries and account notices about your parked domains, sent by email.
• Portfolio Website: A sharable storefront of the domains in your account with search and filters.
• Marketplace: Showcases all domains listed for sale that buyers can search and filter, along with privacy settings for sellers and their domains.
• Traffic monitoring with Google Analytics: See real-time visitors and historical statistics about them, including demographics, referral sources, search engine queries, browsers, OS, etc.
• Traffic reporting natively: The number of visitors to parked domains, optionally displayed on your landing pages.
• Display Images: Bring your landers to life with domain logos, accepted payment methods (e.g., Visa and Mastercard), relevant photos (e.g., puppies on awesomepaw-some domains), paint a picture of what the domain can become, etc. You could even include your company's logo, your headshot, etc.
  • Tip: Use ChatGPT to create a visually-inspiring image for each of your domains!
  • Pro Tip: Images with transparent backgrounds look amazing!
• Custom Descriptions: Add your own descriptions to your landers, along with text formatting and template variables. Learn more on TheDomains.com.
• About Seller (You): Tell visitors about yourself or your company with advanced text styling. Your user card is the perfect place to showcase your experience (e.g., total sales, awards, certifications, notable past clients), your company's details (e.g., slogan, phone number, business hours, languages spoken), etc.
• Minimum Offers: Save time by setting a minimum offer amount to manage buyers’ expectations. Set it as a specific amount or a percentage of the buy-now price (e.g., 50% or 100% to match it exactly).
• 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.
• Price Visibility Control: Show each domain’s price before or after the buyer’s email address is confirmed. Your choice! We recommend after.
• Escrow.com Concierge: An option to use Domain Concierge Service for your Escrow.com transactions.
• Auto-Detected Buyer Details: View detailed information about your potential buyers alongside their inquiries, based on their IP address: their current time and timezone, location, neighborhood's average income and how crowded it is, ISP, hostname domain, connection type (e.g., Cable/DSL, Cellular, Corporate, or Satellite), the type of inquirer (e.g., residential, business, traveler, government, or college), whether they're using an anonymizing service (e.g., VPN or proxy), etc.
• Inquiry notifications: Choose whether to be notified only about inquiries that have confirmed their email address, or all inquiries including unconfirmed inquiries and offers below your chosen minimum, sent by email. Regardless of these settings, all inquiries are accessible on the website.
• Reach Unreachable Buyers: Contact buyers with one-click using proven deliverability and reachability to request that they email you and add your email address to their email's address book and allowlist, by using our "Ask for a reply" button.
• Auto-Protection From Domain Damage: Protect the value of your domains by blocking email abuse that could cause them to be banned and blocklisted. This feature requires using our nameservers that auto-set SPF and DMARC records for you.
• Address Bar Display: Show the visited domain name in the browser’s address bar for each of your landers.
• File Imports: Add domains to your account and set their options (e.g., prices and descriptions) by uploading spreadsheet files (e.g., .CSV).
• Anonymous Name Servers: Verify your domains and then set them to anonymous mode with our generic nameservers ns1.namepros-dns.com & ns2.namepros-dns.com.
• New design options: Choose from over 2,000 unique appearances to personalize your landers. Plus, a new font that is both beautiful and clear for all letters, including zeros, uppercase o's, lowercase L's, and uppercase i's.
• Example demo domains: A list of domains showcasing a variety of our features and appearance options. Use them as a buyer would to see the buyer experience! What's your favorite look?
• Seller card: Link your chosen display name to any website, such as your company website, portfolio page, social media, bio link page, or your NamePros profile. Optionally, show your logo or profile image.
  • Pro Tip: Link it to a NamePros parked domain that lists all your domains in its expanded description. Example: BothDescrips.com is linked to from all of our demo domains (e.g., MakeInquiry.com). Bonus: Real-world example.
• Descriptions with links: Add links to any text in descriptions, including short descriptions, expanded descriptions, and the seller description.
• Descriptions with custom FAQs: Add questions and answers (Q&As) to your expanded descriptions. These fancy theme-based FAQs expand and collapse to keep the page simple and polished.
• Exclusive VIP benefits: Special VIP recognition for VIP members in the confidence-building area and footer of landers. Less disclaimers on landers (e.g., removes the popup tooltip disclaimers for descriptions). And more!
• Catch-All Inbox: A unified mailbox of all emails sent to your parked domains.
• ️ Update: We created a dedicated page for new features and updates. Moving forward, visit this page to see what's new.

Most recent updates and fixes: View Everything

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!

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Bravo Mod Team, I think I mentioned this last year (not sure, already having trouble remembering what I had for breakfast) but could we have a non-branded version?

I'm always worried a potential buyer will find another name when a lander has the option to search or go somewhere else.

Maybe make a brandless option available for free to those that have top tier namepros account or pay a small monthly fee (domain.io) but charge a little less than others do.

Perhaps have a scale tied to all namepros membership levels...yeah, that's the ticket!

 

[korganian]

I would be very interested in listing all my names once you Remove NamePros Branding.

The last thing I want is to educate my buyers to be domainers and expect wholesale prices!

​

 

[Mister Funsky]

Understood. If we provided their ISP and the domain of their hostname, in addition to their location, would that cover everything for you?

Yes, that would be awesome!

ADD: name and phone too of course

 

[NameGroove]

Currently, we just have an Inquiry lander that shows the Buy button and payment methods on the second page after buyers fill out the form and confirm their email address.

Very soon, we will have more landers, including a Buy Now Optimized lander that focuses on the domain being priced on the first page.

In the meantime, the Inquiry lander is very good at lead generation and once buyers confirm their email address, they can buy immediately.

Looking at the demo page - it is unclear to me (as a buyer) that when I enter my info I will see the BIN price. It just says "start conversation" which is not the same thing to me. I think it should be clear and obvious I'm entering this info to see BIN (as some retailers do... saying "see price in cart".

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

i sent message off to Brad, when i did I got a pop up that totally froze my phone. No way out except enter new url

Confirm email popup froze my phone
I’ll be checking my email. At what point does the price if there is one will show on lander?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The problem I see with the landing page is namepros advertising at the bottom of the page.

There will be an option soon to remove that. (Update: NamePros branding can now be removed!)

So when a potential buyer want to buy a $x,xxx name and they click on namepros, they will see all the appraisal is $0 and everything else is around $10 they will charge their mind and looking for something else cheaper.

Over the past year, we've asked sellers parking with us about this, and they told us that it actually helps them whenever it happens because:

1. Most domains (not all) listed in the appraisal section and the marketplace are by new domain investors who haven't quite figured out how to purchase the right domains yet. Therefore, many of those domains help your buyers to realize that the domains they want from you are much better.
   • It's equivalent to having a new, shiny supercar next to an old, beat-up pickup truck.
2. Many buyers want a specific domain name, so the price of other domains doesn't matter.
3. Appraisals can be a consideration, but they don't determine the price. The sale price is determined by an agreed-upon amount by boththe seller and buyer.
   • Domain sellers have been successfully overcoming this buyer objection since 2007 when Estibot was introduced. GoDaddy's GoValue appraisals are also part of this objection today.

Our landers are very effective at getting the conversation started with buyers because the price isn't shown until they've confirmed their email address, so the price could be $1 for all they know. That allows you to know they're interested. From there, you're able to educate the buyer, overcome their objections, and close the deal.

Also it lacks a lot of features from other market places like searching for an alternative name…

Could you provide us with an example of what you have in mind?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Even though you do not offer installment plans, which is obvious,
it would be great if we could show the pot. buyer, that we do (with the right broker).

So, duration & monthly cost would be something we would have to set up manually...
(or, at least just the info, that installm. plans are available).

Agreed. This feature is coming soon.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Namepros branding is heavy.

There will be an option to remove it soon. (Update: NamePros branding can now be removed!)

Fishing for an email to show price, good luck

This is very effective and common among top domain brokers (as “Price Upon Request”). Ours is even better because it’s an immediate price quote without waiting for a broker to reply with the price. It's also a common concept in real estate, so it's not an unfamiliar process.

If a buyer is not willing to confirm their email address to see the price, then they're not very interested and wouldn't buy regardless.

As a bonus, this process prevents robots and archival sites from knowing your price, which buyers could try to use against you in the future if you raised the price. One less objection standing in the way of a sale.

Give it a try.

Update: Andrew of DomainNameWire wrote a great article explaining the pros and cons of it.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

could we have a non-branded version?

It's being worked on as we speak.

From the announcement:

• Remove NamePros Branding: An option to remove unnecessary mentions of NamePros from parked pages.

(Update: NamePros branding can now be removed!)

I'm always worried a potential buyer will find another name when a lander has the option to search or go somewhere else.

Understandable.

This may set your mind at ease a bit:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/namepros-parking-adds-buy-now-and-much-more.1324080/post-9151773

We hope that helps.

 

[Paul]

i sent message off to Brad, when i did I got a pop up that totally froze my phone. No way out except enter new url

It doesn't freeze your phone; it just doesn't let you proceed anywhere on that browser tab until you check your email and confirm it. There's no way to click out of the dialog or accidentally submit the form multiple times: the only path forward is to check your email.

You could always navigate away or close the tab if you change your mind and don't want to submit an inquiry.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

And the button wouldnt work so no send

Our logs are indicating that you didn't submit the form on spatialtrance.com.

Please send us a screenshot.

As you mentioned, you did successfully submit the form on another domain name:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/namepros-parking-adds-buy-now-and-much-more.1324080/post-9151758

i sent message off to Brad, when i did I got a pop up that totally froze my phone. No way out except enter new url

Confirm email popup froze my phone
I’ll be checking my email. At what point does the price if there is one will show on lander?

Your phone isn't frozen. The popup just can't be closed. You can close the tab or refresh the page to fill out the form again.

This conversion optimization of not allowing that popup to be closed significantly increased our email confirmation rate. It's very effective. Prior, a lot of buyers would close that page without realizing that they had to confirm their email address.

I’ll be checking my email. At what point does the price if there is one will show on lander?

As soon as you confirm your email.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would be very interested in listing all my names once you Remove NamePros Branding.

We'll let you know once that's ready. (Update: NamePros branding can now be removed!)

The last thing I want is to educate my buyers to be domainers and expect wholesale prices!

​

Don't worry about it too much because:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/1324080/post-9151773

But you'll have peace of mind regardless once that feature is ready.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

ADD: name and phone too of course

The buyer's name and phone is part of the form.

Is there a name and phone associated with an IP address that you'd like?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Looking at the demo page - it is unclear to me (as a buyer) that when I enter my info I will see the BIN price. It just says "start conversation" which is not the same thing to me. I think it should be clear and obvious I'm entering this info to see BIN

That will be an option soon with a new lander: Buy Now Optimized.

 

[nononsense123]

Thanks y'all are doing awesome work! Waiting for the Buy Now Optimized landing page. I hope we won't have to wait long for that!

 

[Mister Funsky]

Is there a name and phone associated with an IP address that you'd like?

No, just the one the potential buyer furnishes.

I'm sure it is covered somewhere but wanted to ask if there will be a space provided for a sales pitch? If so, any idea how many characters might be available?

It would be so great if the Namepros lander can solve all the issues we as sellers have...I've spent so many hours moving names in the last 6 months...actually finishing my third move now but the lander has some info I feel is too negative for a potential buyer to see.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Pinger phone number
Burner email
Vpn
Easy to hide identity via form

I guess members can link to landers now if we use yours.
Thanks @Paul it wouldnt let me click submit so its gonna show I did not submit.
Two emails from example Brad name at 6:32
One to confirm, one its confirmed, my email.

The less info I dish out the better

I sent message to @nononsense123 spatial
Left tab open that was froze up, off to gmail and confirmed. A tab via google opened, not regular tab and saw the price

The original tab was still frozen and a refresh went back to original landing page
no price.
Moderately impressed.
Dont like guessing games when i see a car on side of road, I want to know price, not call some number

My inquiry been submitted email arrived, spatial name
2 emails to find out a bin if there is a bin

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Waiting for the Buy Now Optimized landing page. I hope we won't have to wait long for that!

Fingers crossed for today!

Note: That domain name is not parked with us; it's just a mockup.

 

[Paul]

Thanks @Paul it wouldnt let me click submit so its gonna show I did not submit.

Our logs show that your browser never attempted to submit the form. A screenshot might explain why: for example, if you have a typo in your email address or omit a required field, your browser may prevent you from submitting the form.

Without a screenshot, we can't even begin to troubleshoot, as the submission attempt never reached our servers.

Continued: https://www.namepros.com/conversations/submission-issue.3361438/

Pinger phone number
Burner email
Vpn
Easy to hide identity via form

We could potentially flag some of that, but we won't filter it out. All of those are still potential leads. For example, VPNs are very popular, and many high-end device manufacturers include them in their services--Google and Apple both offer them. The phone numbers and email addresses that I use for business inquiries looks like a burner numbers/emails--because they are. I'd never enter a phone number or email address I care about on an inquiry form.

Our priority is getting the leads to you as reliably as possible. You can then decide what to do with them.

 

[nononsense123]

I received the message from @MasterOfMyDomains