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!

 

[korganian]

Please add an export txt for both verified and unverified domains. Even when I try to copy and paste all my unverified names into a domain parser, all I get is a blank.

 

[rh2000]

Well Escrow.com is I think reasonable for big transactions but I don't think reasonable enough for the consistent small transactions a Domainer needs to sell and reinvest. To rinse and repeat.

@Paul if an escrow is not possible at all, what about the possibility to sell a domain and get paid in NP account credit that you can use to buy better domains within the NamePros platform? That would allow also the ppl to stay within the NamePros ecosystem and make the ecosystem grow.

You can do small transactions on Escrow.com. I think it has to be at least $100. Or you can try Paypal.

 

[Future Sensors]

If you capitalize an “Interested” domain name

Let's delve into this further, and capitalize on this. Here's what's happening in DNS

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/01/19/google_dns_queries/

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Please add an export txt for both verified and unverified domains. Even when I try to copy and paste all my unverified names into a domain parser, all I get is a blank.

This is assigned to a developer.

Thanks for suggesting it.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Moving forward, please let us know if you see anything that deviates from what we described. It could have been a temporary issue/delay.

Okay, just came across what is/was happening.

In my parking dashboard, the name I will send you shows verified. However, when clicking on it via link provided to the right of the name or typing it in directly, it shows the 'interested' line with no camel case (all lower case letters).

I will DM you with screen shots.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

However, when clicking on it via link provided to the right of the name or typing it in directly, it shows the 'interested' line with no camel case (all lower case letters).

Resolved; it was just cached. It wouldn’t have affected inquiries or anything else.

There will be an update within a few days to improve the caching of parked pages to avoid delays like that.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

 

[Fayaz Ahmed]

This is really thoughtful! Will certainly try it out when I get time.

One suggestion: based on my own online data collection experience, the least amount of friction results in more submission.

So the idea is: you'll only show the email address field on the landing page, and then they'll get a confirmation email with a link to confirm their submission. Once they click the confirmation link, the option to fill in the details like Name, Company, Phone mumber etc. will be provided along with the domain Buy now price.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

So the idea is: you'll only show the email address field on the landing page, and then they'll get a confirmation email with a link to confirm their submission. Once they click the confirmation link, the option to fill in the details like Name, Company, Phone mumber etc. will be provided along with the domain Buy now price.

It’s a great idea. However, it comes with a trade-off: less buyers will fill out the optional fields.

Both of these have pros and cons:

1. Show the required and optional fields together. The best opportunity to get buyers to fill out optional fields is when they’re already filling out required fields, thanks to inertia.
2. Show only the required fields and then later present the optional fields. Buyers won’t be as motivated to fill out the optional fields after they’ve successfully submitted a previous form. This approach doubles the amount of submissions that the buyer must make to provide optional details.

In other words, #2 slightly decreases the friction to provide their email address, but it doubles the friction to provide their name, company, phone, etc.

In the case of an unpriced domain, #2 doubles the friction for the buyer to submit an offer, or worse than doubles it.

We chose #1 with only two required fields, and we make it clear which two: name and email.

Our belief based on our experience and data is that #2 will result in slightly more low-quality leads at the expense of useful qualifying details about high-quality buyers with genuine interest in buying.

Therefore, #1 is the best driver of domain sales because high-quality data-rich leads are more valuable than low-quality data-thin leads.

We might do some A/B tests in the future to get more data on it.

Thanks for sharing your idea with us. It’s an idea that we strongly considered last year before building our landers.

 

[alcy]

Thanks for the suggestion! Check out the demo at Nuggies.Ninja

which alcohol were u on when u typed... available for sale ... in worlds.tiniest font?

 

[werty]

Hey just checking when there will be a buy it now template with price and buy button shown on landing page?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

which alcohol were u on when u typed... available for sale ... in worlds.tiniest font?

Its size is ~24px. For comparison, the text size of this sentence is ~15px.

The text size of this sentence is 22px (smaller than the "Available for sale" text).

It's not that it's small or difficult to read. It's just that it's next to the domain name, which we make really big when possible. That said, the size of the domain name is based on its length.

Check this out:

• https://www.namepros.com/parked/toptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptop.top

No alcohol consumed.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Hey just checking when there will be a buy it now template with price and buy button shown on landing page?

Our buy-now template is publicly available and the buy button shows after they confirm their email address.

Learn more: https://domainnamewire.com/2024/04/10/namepros-has-a-brilliant-idea-with-its-new-buy-now-feature/

So far, this is working really well. We're seeing buyers agree and commit to buy domains using this approach.

Give it a try!

 

[Future Sensors]

It might be useful to also post a screenshot in this thread of what the potential buyer sees after confirming their email address. In other words: a screenshot with the price shown.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It might be useful to also post a screenshot in this thread of what the potential buyer sees after confirming their email address. In other words: a screenshot with the price shown.

Good idea.

The Nuggies.Ninja demo is also a great way to see what it looks like currently, as it will improve over time. For example, there's an update coming this week that will slightly change its appearance.

We'll also have more demos available soon for this purpose, since there are lots of different configurations possible with NamePros Parking.

Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[TheBuyerz]

Hi,

Just a suggestion, it would be nice to add more informations about the visitor (buyer) like referrer URL to see the provenance.

@Bravo Mod Team
And also notify the previous interested buyers when a new visitor ask for price or make an offer.

Thank you

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Minimum Offers: Save time by specifying a minimum offer amount to set buyers’ expectations.

It's ready!

A few quick notes:

1. Sellers won't be notified by email about offers below their minimum offer, but those offers can still be seen on the website. You can also still export or press the "Email" button to send a copy of them to your email if you later decide you'd like to discuss that lower offer or liquidate your domain at it.
2. Buyers will be informed if their offer is below the minimum and instructed that an improved offer will be necessary to continue.
3. Prior to this update, there was an option named Purchase emails only. That option has been removed because a new Use buy-now price option has been added as a minimum-offer setting that can be used instead.

A lot more coming soon!

 

[Mister Funsky]

It's ready!

I'm not sure how this speaks to my current existence but this is really exciting me!

Looking forward to the other improvements (integrating the daddy checkout link possibility is one).

This is a gamechanger for many domainers...THANK YOU!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

And also notify the previous interested buyers when a new visitor ask for price or make an offer.

That's an excellent way to build urgency within a sale.

A few things would need to be taken into consideration:

• Sellers may not always want buyers to know this, e.g., on domains that don't get many inquiries.
• Buyers could receive hundreds of emails per day if they inquire on a handful of highly-coveted domains.
• Both sellers and buyers would probably need to opt-in to this feature. (Or, at least, be able to unsubscribe to opt out of it.)

With those things in mind, it might be best for sellers to share this information with buyers when they feel it is appropriate (e.g., when it might help move a deal forward).

What do you think?

 

[TheBuyerz]

That's an excellent way to build urgency within a sale.

A few things would need to be taken into consideration:

• Sellers may not always want buyers to know this, e.g., on domains that don't get many inquiries.
• Buyers could receive hundreds of emails per day if they inquire on a handful of highly-coveted domains.
• Both sellers and buyers would probably need to opt-in to this feature.

With those things in mind, it might be best for sellers to share this information with buyers when they feel it is appropriate (e.g., when it might help move a deal forward).

What do you think?

Nice idea! Letting seller to enable that option from the dashboard and Buyer from the domain name page to choose to follow that domain name for any price change, status (sold or not), new offers ect.

That's really interesting

 

[louddrums]

Whenever I've gotten a notice from reverb.com on an item that's on my watch list (I buy drums) that someone made an offer on it, I've sometimes moved fast to purchase at their full asking price to avoid losing to another buyer. I think doing the same thing for domains would really help make more sales.