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!)

• 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 this setting, 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 "Mark as Unreachable" 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!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Thought you'd like to note that it looks like phone numbers and not a very generous offers.

Yeah, we should probably just block offer amounts that match the phone number. Can anyone think of a reason that we might not want to do that?

 

[Optimal Names]

Yeah, we should probably just block offer amounts that match the phone number. Can anyone think of a reason that we might not want to do that?

I think the lead should still record but maybe erase the offer if its identical or even mostly the phone number since it seems that is what they're doing. It would still be interesting to see the lead info, however.

 

[NicTraders]

I think the lead should still record but maybe erase the offer if its identical or even mostly the phone number since it seems that is what they're doing. It would still be interesting to see the lead info, however.

Or, it could be set to pop up a message to the offeror asking them to enter a valid amount.

 

[DN Universal]

I usually receive an inquiry every few days (probably 75%/25% confirmed/not confirmed emails)

But today from, 10:30 AM EDT through 11:35 AM EDT the floodgates seemed to open and I received SEVEN in that 65 minute period. All not confirmed. All look spammy.

One thing I've noted is that I do not think these insane offers are not purposely done. (see below screenshot)

It seems they are the exact (or the majority of the) phone number which they likely copy/pasted into the offer field.

So, for that can there be a filter to check if some or all of the phone number has been copied in or re-entered into the offer field? Also a max allowable offer amount? I once had an offer for 999,999,999,999 which, I'll go out on a limb, only a few of my domains are worth that much but I wouldnt ever sell them! Seriously, can we have a setting that allows us to reject an offer over a certain amount?

Many of today's inquiries were annoymized / likely VPN and the names do not match the email addresses so I wont be wasting time on them.

I am just curious why seven inquiries were received in a 65 minute period when the seven prior inquiries date back 10 days to April 15th.

Here are the inquiry numbers and times. 5 distinct domains received 7 inquiries in 65 minutes. 1 domain received 3 within a 14 minute period. ALL seven inquires not confrmed as of my writing this.
DOMAIN 1 39372 10:30 AM EDT - Cyprus (99%)
DOMAIN 2 39444 10:32 AM EDT - Japan (99%); Tokyo (80%); Tokyo (50%)
DOMAIN 3 39497 10:34 AM EDT - Algeria (99%); Algiers (80%); Algiers (50%)

DOMAIN 4 39514 10:34 AM EDT - Portugal (99%)
DOMAIN 4 39596 10:45 AM EDT - United States (99%); Florida (80%); Miami (50%)
DOMAIN 4 39597 10:48 AM EDT - United Kingdom (99%); England (80%); Manchester (70%); Manchester (50%)

DOMAIN 5 39607 11:35 AM EDT - Argentina (99%); Buenos Aires F.D. (80%); Buenos Aires (50%)

(edit: added locations)

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I Think those floodgates you mentioned are still open.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Show attachment 274507I Think those floodgates you mentioned are still open.

Do any of those offers match the phone number field?

 

[DN Universal]

Do any of those offers match the phone number field?

I sent you a DM relating to this issue.

 

[Optimal Names]

Do any of those offers match the phone number field?

Still receiving considerably more inquiries than usual.

The pattern is the same:
- fake names
- fake email addresses (which do not match the name provided)
- emails are all not confirmed
- fake company names (they try to make the company sound like a law firm LOL!)
- phone numbers cant be verified

I have received probably dozens now but many don’t have the phone number in the offer- just tons of offers from very strange leads all of a sudden.

ALL are from anonymous VPN

I would love /prefer to block all anonymized inquiries from even being able to fill out the form. That should stop this (for me) as I have never had a legit offer come in via anonymous VPN.

But yea, tons of inquiries all of a sudden. I'd like to know the technical reason as to why, would be interesting to learn.

 

[NicTraders]

Still receiving considerably more inquiries than usual.

That should be great news! What a shame it's not...
At least you can be sure that @Bravo Mod Team will get onto it and find a way to sort out the issue, as opposed to if you posted this issue on threads relating to certain marketplaces which shall remain unnamed...!

 

[DN Universal]

All of my inquiries were "unconfirmed" emails as well.

I just wanted to make sure that I pointed that out for clarification.

 

[Optimal Names]

That should be great news! What a shame it's not...
At least you can be sure that @Bravo Mod Team will get onto it and find a way to sort out the issue, as opposed to if you posted this issue on threads relating to certain marketplaces which shall remain unnamed...!

Yea, its frustrating but NP always works it out.

Something has definitely changed. Received a few more this morning already.

Its tough work to sift through these leads on our own. We want to assume each one of them is legit but eventually a pattern emerges. It does lend perspective to how difficult it is to handle all of the leads ourselves. Sometimes I wonder if its worth the 15-25% fee to let someone else do it for me.

That is why I think (for me, at least) if I could click a box that tells a lead using any sort of Anonymizer service that the data entry form is disabled because they're using an anonymous service, but explains that if they come back with a non-Anonymizer service then the form will become active and they can fill it out. OR perhaps they must to confirm their email address before being shown the rest of the form? Not sure what would work best and will leave that to NP.

However, this is a good example of why I'd like to be able to delete inquiries.
Along with my own test inquiries, these particular leads are worthless IMO and clutter things up even with the ability to filter "unconfirmed". Sometimes if an unconfirmed lead enters useful data then that particular lead may be able to be contacted. Maybe they got sidetracked or confused on how to confirm. With the current influx of anonymous unconfirmed leads I cant tell anymore.

This is just one example of the leads that all came in within 3 minutes. Three of them at the exact same time. All the same domain name. So I'd love to simply delete these and just forget they even existed.

Since April 9th (I think thats about when this all began) I've 44 of these sorts of leads (against 22 unique domain names) and every time I check there are a couple more. Is anyone else seeing this besides those who have commented already?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

if I could click a box that tells a lead using any sort of Anonymizer service that the data entry form is disabled because they're using an anonymous service, but explains that if they come back with a non-Anonymizer service then the form will become active and they can fill it out.

Interesting idea! That could be an effective strategy for serious buyers. Thanks for sharing this suggestion.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

All of my inquiries were "unconfirmed" emails as well.

emails are all not confirmed

Yeah, we're seeing the same thing across multiple accounts: these invalid offers are almost exclusively from unconfirmed inquiries. Our email confirmation feature is already disqualifying those inquiries for most sellers, but we understand that some sellers like to check unconfirmed inquiries, too.

We're going to try rejecting offers that match the phone number or exceed $1 billion dollars so that the visitor must enter a valid offer to submit the form.

Let's see if that helps. That's a quick change so hopefully we can release that this upcoming week, along with our new qualification feature.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Something has definitely changed. Received a few more this morning already.

Yep, we switched from Google reCAPTCHA to Cloudflare Turnstile.

Google reCAPTCHA is blocked in countries like China, so we expect there to be an increase of all types of inquiries, including the unfortunate ones like confused visitors and human spammers. That's over a billion new people who can create inquiries now.

Our upcoming qualification feature is going to be an excellent way to deal with all of these sorts of inquiries. If they pass that qualification, then they're a serious buyer.

Coming this upcoming week!

 

[Skyvisum]

Some unqualified inquiries coming through this captcha .Make it tighter so only real inquiries can come through.

Still got 2 real inquiries, so that's still good .

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Notice: You may have just received multiple "IMPORTANT" emails from us. If you did, don't be alarmed.

Those are from you using our "Ask for a reply" feature. There was a small bug introduced recently that caused those emails to get delayed, but now they've all been sent out (to catch up) within the past 2 hours. It shouldn't happen again.

Sorry about that!

 

[Skyvisum]

@Bravo Mod Team ,I think payment methods should go underneath "buy it now price and just get rid of "start a conversation".
Don't you think it makes buyers second guess ?

Suggestion to add this lander with to the list please and keep your "start a conversation" as well for others.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I think payment methods should go underneath "buy it now price

Underneath the "Continue" button, or underneath the "Buy now" text?

get rid of "start a conversation".
Don't you think it makes buyers second guess ?

That's just a contact option in case the buyer has a question about the process, payment terms, etc.

We can consider renaming it to "Contact seller" or something if you think that'd be better in this scenario.

Let us know.

 

[Skyvisum]

We can consider renaming it to "Contact seller" or something if you think that'd be better in this scenario.

Yes "Contact seller " is fine .But I still prefer the payment methods to be underneath the buy it now price .
The "contact seller" should be at the bottom after that.

Thanks .

 

[Optimal Names]

Update on the flood of unconfirmed leads, it has slowed down considerably. I've received a couple of unconfirmed emails and one of them is actually the person who the claim to be (name, company, phone number can all be found in the wild). They just didnt confirm.

So that is good news on the lead quantity front!

 

[Optimal Names]

I would like to add AtomPay to the available payment methods that I accept.

Edit: If it is the Atom Pay Network ID on this page https://www.atom.com/dashboard/account/payment-options then I have just found it and set that up at NP in my settings. Is that all I need to do or do I need to add these domain names to Atom as well?