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!

 

[Optimal Names]

We heard back from Atom on this:

If they’re a serious domain investor with a large portfolio and a strong trust score on NamePros, we’d be happy to make them a Trusted Seller on our platform and waive the usual requirements.​

Great news!

Thank you! Is it advisable to connect with them here (DM), or at Atom, to have this fulfilled? I figured I would ask here since I can not see the private conversation that is being referenced.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Thank you! Is it advisable to connect with them here (DM), or at Atom, to have this fulfilled? I figured I would ask here since I can not see the private conversation that is being referenced.

Send us a direct message with your Network ID or account email address for them.

 

[alcy]

I'm still on bodis.. had few mins and switched few names to np today to see where it's at
. .. last I tried was 6month ago..
I left cause of lack of proper support for getting all inquiries not just confirmed ones.. apparently now it's better but back then np seemed to be under impression that somehow their view on whether email confirmations are better or not somehow is more important than client and user view. which obviously it's not because client is boss. and.without client their parking wouldnt exist


anyway this kinda seems fixed now
so tnx

later is always better than never

now to the fun part.

I add some names today

try one.. and lo behold I get 7 trillion ridiculous security screens
.. u know all that back to safety or proceed at your risk.

what is this nonsense??? it doesnt exist on any other landers.. sedo bodis etc

how can u put a buyer thru this massacre ???? do u do not testing before releasing a product??? or it's just bad joke????

obviously I switched back. with utter disgust for a time wasted.

android
chrome

 

[NorthernDomains]

what is this nonsense??? it doesnt exist on any other landers.. sedo bodis etc

how can u put a buyer thru this massacre ???? do u do not testing before releasing a product??? or it's just bad joke????

The SSL certificate hadn't been certified yet. Time would have solved the problem, usually within a few minutes to a couple of hours.

 

[alcy]

The SSL certificate hadn't been certified yet. Time would have solved the problem, usually within a few minutes to a couple of hours.

tnx
lol
I'm sure both u and I and any sane person here realizes few mins or hours for potential buyer coming to your lander equals a no sale.

I tried np landers months back. I quit cause they tried to convince me only confirmed emails are of importance. instead of listening to what matters to a client. not to them.

I wasted more time today trying this again and I get this.

I'm done with np landers.

bye bye

 

[louddrums]

tnx
lol
I'm sure both u and I and any sane person here realizes few mins or hours for potential buyer coming to your lander equals a no sale.

I tried np landers months back. I quit cause they tried to convince me only confirmed emails are of importance. instead of listening to what matters to a client. not to them.

I wasted more time today trying this again and I get this.

I'm done with np landers.

bye bye

I'm sorry this is happening to you. The NP landers have improved my sales tremendously. The past few months I've had 10k plus in sales from the detailed data I've gotten from the inquiries. I'm now in escrow after weeks of negotiations for a single name sold for $120k. I'll make that announcement official on what that name is after it (hopefully) closes with no issues.

 

[Paul]

I'm sure both u and I and any sane person here realizes few mins or hours for potential buyer coming to your lander equals a no sale.

It will typically be about 15 seconds after we first see a domain pointing at us. This is just how long it takes a certificate authority to issue a certificate: even in the best case scenario, every other provider is forced to wait this long. It’s not something we—or any other provider—can control.

If it takes longer than that, something is probably wrong. Since we’re requesting lots of certificates, sometimes we might cause a certificate authority to be under more load than they’re normally expecting to handle. We’ve selected CAs that are accustomed to dealing with lots of traffic, but it can still happen. If you let us know a domain that seemed to take longer than 15 seconds, we can investigate.

 

[alcy]

I'm sorry this is happening to you. The NP landers have improved my sales tremendously. The past few months I've had 10k plus in sales from the detailed data I've gotten from the inquiries. I'm now in escrow after weeks of negotiations for a single name sold for $120k. I'll make that announcement official on what that name is after it (hopefully) closes with no issues.

u seem clever man
yet u cant see your statement is absurd.

no one can tell what lander sells better or best if a same domain can only ever be on one lander during a same time.

but I dare u to prove the name or names u sold on lander x during period y would not have sold during identical period y on lander z.

without using parallel universes in proof.

 

[Future Sensors]

had few mins and switched few names to np today to see where it's at

If I'm not mistaken, your portfolio includes some TLDs that are known for slow DNS delegation updates. Such a delay could explain why TLS certificate provisioning at NamePros Parking couldn't start immediately. If you remember the exact error messages, could you share them, they usually contain useful information.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dn...ng-on-several-platforms.1333799/#post-9241735

 

[alcy]

It will typically be about 15 seconds after we first see a domain pointing at us. This is just how long it takes a certificate authority to issue a certificate: even in the best case scenario, every other provider is forced to wait this long. It’s not something we—or any other provider—can control.

If it takes longer than that, something is probably wrong. Since we’re requesting lots of certificates, sometimes we might cause a certificate authority to be under more load than they’re normally expecting to handle. We’ve selected CAs that are accustomed to dealing with lots of traffic, but it can still happen. If you let us know a domain that seemed to take longer than 15 seconds, we can investigate.

nice of u to explain
niceness was never your weak point

but I need working stuff to sell or to use a lander. to me that means that I dont care for confirming emails. in fact not confirming emails is what allows me to fall asleep in peace at nite. and now with all this certificate nonsense.. which btw is a non issue on any other lander I try... cant also become another matter keeping me from peace on my domain journey.

I'm sure there are ways to get rid of it all .. with everyone else being proof of that.. so I hope u do.

15 secs or 1min or 1h is eternity to potential buyer.. ie.. a no sale.

 

[alcy]

If I'm not mistaken, your portfolio includes some TLDs that are known for slow DNS delegation updates. Such a delay could explain why TLS certificate provisioning at NamePros Parking couldn't start immediately. If you remember the exact error messages, could you share them, they usually contain useful information.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dn...ng-on-several-platforms.1333799/#post-9241735

sure ..we all got a few of those ... but now u are just assuming i tested the oddest looking and rarest tld in my folio.

 

[Future Sensors]

sure ..we all got a few of those ... but now u are just assuming i tested the oddest looking and rarest tld in my folio.

Only you and Paul know...

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

now with all this certificate nonsense.. which btw is a non issue on any other lander I try

It's the same for all of those providers.

Certificates must be requested once every 90 days for each domain name that you want to visit with HTTPS.

After the certificate is issued, typically within ~15 seconds, then all future visits work immediately (no more waiting and no more warning messages), until its renewal.

The unlucky part is that you visited the domain name before the certificate was issued; that's why you saw a warning. If you or anyone else had tried to visit it again, it would have worked perfectly and you'd likely never experience it again for that domain.

You can visit all of our demo domains to see that none of them have a warning message because they all already received their certificates:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/what-do-namepros-landers-look-like-examples-and-demos.1044799/

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

in fact not confirming emails is what allows me to fall asleep in peace at nite.

As you noted, we added an option to support your preference in September 2024.

 

[alcy]

It's the same for all of those providers.

Certificates must be requested once every 90 days for each domain name that you want to visit with HTTPS.

After the certificate is issued, typically within ~15 seconds, then all future visits work immediately (no more waiting and no more warning messages), until its renewal.

The unlucky part is that you visited the domain name before the certificate was issued; that's why you saw a warning. If you or anyone else had tried to visit it again, it would have worked perfectly and you'd likely never experience it again for that domain.

You can visit all of our demo domains to see that none of them have a warning message because they all already received their certificates:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/what-do-namepros-landers-look-like-examples-and-demos.1044799/

but bro.. dont we all know that buyers dont really do 2nd visits or 2nd chances? we only get one shot

I'm no website or browser but I never saw this elsewhere...maybe they just dont use certificates?

It's not my field. I go by what I see.

 

[alcy]

Only you and Paul know...

knowing and remembering are not same.

 

[Paul]

Certificates must be requested once every 90 days for each domain name that you want to visit with HTTPS.

Every 60 days, actually. We try to keep 30 days of runway.

 

[Paul]

I'm no website or browser but I never saw this elsewhere...maybe they just dont use certificates?

That could be what you’re seeing. Unfortunately for users of those providers, an increasing number of web browsers are starting to require certificates, and all mainstream browsers will eventually require them.

Our goal is to ensure the most people possible are able to see your landers. If the choice is between waiting an extra 15 seconds to provision a certificate, versus excluding an increasingly larger portion of the world that will never be able to see your lander without a certificate, well…

Like you said, no second chances. Nobody is going to switch browsers to visit your lander that doesn’t have a certificate; they’re just going to leave.

Looking at some of your domains, though, I can see that you’re using a landing service that relies on the same certificate authority that we use. They are getting certificates, and they have to wait the same amount of time for each one.

In technical terms, Let’s Encrypt, the CA, has to use special servers called HSMs to generate multiple cryptographic signatures for every domain you park with us (or that other provider). Those HSMs have to be very secure since they’re handling the most sensitive parts of the issuance process, but they’re also slow and expensive. Let’s Encrypt is the best equipped CA to issue certificates quickly, but even they can’t do it instantly. There’s also quite a bit of delay from the variety of DNS checks they’re required to perform, and if your registry/registrar has any delays in DNS propagation, that adds to the time it takes. Furthermore, if any of those checks fail due to DNS propagation delays, we have to wait even longer before trying again.

 

[alcy]

That could be what you’re seeing. Unfortunately for users of those providers, an increasing number of web browsers are starting to require certificates, and all mainstream browsers will eventually require them.

Our goal is to ensure the most people possible are able to see your landers. If the choice is between waiting an extra 15 seconds to provision a certificate, versus excluding an increasingly larger portion of the world that will never be able to see your lander without a certificate, well…

Like you said, no second chances. Nobody is going to switch browsers to visit your lander that doesn’t have a certificate; they’re just going to leave.

Looking at some of your domains, though, I can see that you’re using a landing service that relies on the same certificate authority that we use. They are getting certificates, and they have to wait the same amount of time for each one.

In technical terms, Let’s Encrypt, the CA, has to use special servers called HSMs to generate multiple cryptographic signatures for every domain you park with us (or that other provider). Those HSMs have to be very secure since they’re handling the most sensitive parts of the issuance process, but they’re also slow and expensive. Let’s Encrypt is the best equipped CA to issue certificates quickly, but even they can’t do it instantly. There’s also quite a bit of delay from the variety of DNS checks they’re required to perform, and if your registry/registrar has any delays in DNS propagation, that adds to the time it takes. Furthermore, if any of those checks fail due to DNS propagation delays, we have to wait even longer before trying again.

I see.
so let me understand.. they have to go back to this page again or ot kinda reloads and refreshes on it's own seconds later??? well I use bodis.. never had these screens going there.

nor basis landers
... gd..etc...

I stll dont think buyer will return or go thru these screens

plus they were not there when I tested months ago. but I left cause u i insisted on confirmed emails and all that

 

[Future Sensors]

so let me understand.. they have to go back to this page again or ot kinda reloads and refreshes on it's own seconds later???

Here's how it works. When someone (you, the buyer, or a web crawler) visits your landing page for the 1st time, the NamePros webserver detects that no certificate is present, and will immediately request one. Once issued, the secured landing page loads right away (for everyone) without needing a reload.