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, not sure if this has been covered/suggested, but for some names I list it is beneficial to have a BIN in addition to 'make offer' option. Is that going to be possible with the landers?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I wanted to mention a 'notes' area that the seller could toggle on or off would be great. An area that would show (if activated) under the domain where the seller could enter up to several lines of info/pitch.

The length be capped to number of characters that reasonably all fit on one lander page in an attractive place.

Agreed, this can definitely help.

This is a bit of a bigger project because we'd need a whole moderation system for it, but we'll get it added to our suggestions list and see if the devs can make it happen anytime soon.

Thanks for sharing this suggestion.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

for some names I list it is beneficial to have a BIN in addition to 'make offer' option.

All BIN landers have an offer field below the BIN.

For sellers who don't want to consider anything except their BIN price, we have the "Use buy-now price" option under the "Minimum offer" setting. That will immediately decline their offer, and it'll let them know that the minimum offer is the BIN price.

We'll have more demos soon so that everyone can explore the different experiences from a buyer's perspective.

 

[Future Sensors]

All BIN landers have an offer field below the BIN.

For sellers who don't want to consider anything except their BIN price, we have the "Use buy-now price" option under the "Minimum offer" setting. That will immediately decline their offer, and it'll let them know that the minimum offer is the BIN price.

Can the MO field be hidden as well?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Can the MO field be hidden as well?

It's hidden on the first page of the BIN lander. It cannot be hidden on the second page.

 

[eyedomainous]

Community barn raising is always good to see. Kudos NamePros!

A no commission lander is great for the ~1% of domains sold.
But the community needs a bigger barn. And a better business model.

Making domains profitable to hold is key to selling more domains.

With that in mind, this is what I would add:

1) Rebrand to 'Market Page' / NamePros Market Pages.*
2) Add a Market keyword Press Release RSS Feed beside the form.**
3) Sell NP Market Page Templates to non-members.***

* 'Parking' does not Drive end-user, or virtually any, engagement.
** NP charges 'Name Fencing' Content Distribution Fees via 3rd parties or DIY.
** Domainer names in Content Distribution Packages earn a rev share.
*** Grow domaining (and NP) by solving the unused domain problem.

Geo & NameFencing is a two fisted distribution solution a fragmented web needs to best serve markets. While GeoFencing delivers a 'buck shot' area, NameFencing 'sharp shoots' targeted names and extensions.

U.S. Geofencing market:
From US$ 1,867.2 Million in 2022 to US$ 9,596.6 Million in 2032

Global Geofencing Market:
US$ ~1.95 billion in 2022 | expected growth rate (CAGR) of 21.7% to 2030.

GoDaddy's Parking Portfolio ~best compares to our combined holdings.
"GoDaddy‘s domain portfolio generated over $218 million in 2021."

Domainers can bring value to the table, and stop leaving money on it.

The mission, if accepted: make NamePros the Google of undeveloped names.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

** NP charges 'Name Fencing' Content Distribution Fees via 3rd parties or DIY.
** Domainer names in Content Distribution Packages earn a rev share.
*** Grow domaining (and NP) by solving the unused domain problem.

Geo & NameFencing is a two fisted distribution solution a fragmented web needs to best serve markets. While GeoFencing delivers a 'buck shot' area, NameFencing 'sharp shoots' targeted names and extensions.

U.S. Geofencing market:
From US$ 1,867.2 Million in 2022 to US$ 9,596.6 Million in 2032

Global Geofencing Market:
US$ ~1.95 billion in 2022 | expected growth rate (CAGR) of 21.7% to 2030.

GoDaddy's Parking Portfolio ~best compares to our combined holdings.
"GoDaddy‘s domain portfolio generated over $218 million in 2021."

Domainers can bring value to the table, and stop leaving money on it.

The mission, if accepted: make NamePros the Google of undeveloped names.

Fascinating idea!

In order to get deals like that with content providers, we’ll first need a massive network of traffic from parked domains.

So, if anyone wants this to possibly exist as an option on your domains one day, it’s time to park your domains with us.

Thanks for your unique and innovative suggestion!

 

[bmugford]

A lot has changed since I first tested these landers.

I am going to move some domains over in the next couple weeks and give these a test drive.

Brad

 

[alop]

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.

For sale sign was always bigger than which house was for sale

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

For sale sign was always bigger than which house was for sale

Perspective, right?

 

[Mister Funsky]

Having about 200 names parked, I just experienced something.

I'm not in the habit of using a spreadsheet program anymore since the places I have names pointed have what I need included.

It might take too much coding (or I'm missing it somehow) but is there an easy way to see the summary of the parked status of each name? What I'm saying is that it takes several steps to see the status of a name. It would be nice to be able to see if it is actively listed for sale (simple button indicator) is there off accepted, what than min might be, BIN price, etc.

If this is unlikely to happen for whatever reason, please let me know so as I continue to add names I'll have to fire up a spreadsheet.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It would be nice to be able to see if it is actively listed for sale (simple button indicator) is there off accepted, what than min might be, BIN price, etc.

In our next group of small updates, we plan to add pertinent details like BIN and minimum offer to domain lists and each domain's summary area. Those details will also be included in domain exports soon.

Could you explain in more detail what "actively listed for sale" means to you? Domains currently show a verified icon or the text "Unverified" next to them based on their verification status. Are you looking for an indicator of whether that domain is redirecting to a NamePros lander?

Let us know.

 

[Future Sensors]

The current administrative dashboard has been implemented within the existing forum. This will undoubtedly bring advantages. When expanding the dashboard with many new features and reporting, it would be nice to also be able to use the entire screen space. Suddenly, much more information can be made visible at the same time, without having to cram or click a lot.

 

[william]

Would it be possible for an option to add a short description for the domain somewhere?

 

[eyedomainous]

In order to get deals like that with content providers, we’ll first need a massive network of traffic from parked domains.

Massive traffic to parked domains?? You know type-ins are their thing.

Adding real-time market keyword content news feeds would be massive on the traffic front and on the market's end-user engagement front.

Also, like geofencing, name fencing is essentially a target marketing tool.
Content providers, of course, do both mass marketing & target marketing.

When you're first with a unique tool that not only can direct a Cause Campaign to .org domains, for example, but also hit its keyword targets;

Make hay while the sun shines! to pitchfork another barn reference.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Are you looking for an indicator of whether that domain is redirecting to a NamePros lander?

Yes. Sorry I wasn't more clear (trying to multitask too many tasks).

It would be nice to see names in list form (or individually if the system is best suited this way) with an indicator if it is actively pointed to NP's. Also on that same line it would be good to see min offer (if there is one) followed by BIN price (if there is one). Things like reg date, expire date, registrar, etc. arent that important to me but might be to others.

 

[korganian]

The thing I see is needed right now is a way to assign a status for each lead and be able to sort them by status. Examples: confused, "low ball", "in negotiation", "deep pocket", "may buy later".

This will help us a lot after we have hundreds of leads.

 

[louddrums]

Any possibility to automatically direct an email after verification into like say Mailchimp so we can have an multiple email drip campaign running?
Any ideas being pulled from the Reverb.com examples I sent previously?

BTW, thank you for being innovative with your parking and soon to be marketplace platform.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

indicator if it is actively pointed to NP's.

The verification status should indicate this for most intents and purposes.

Soon, we’ll be continuously verifying daily, which will decrease the delay in detecting if a verification record has been removed (e.g., name servers are removed).

it would be good to see min offer (if there is one) followed by BIN price (if there is one).

Coming soon.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The thing I see is needed right now is a way to assign a status for each lead and be able to sort them by status. Examples: confused, "low ball", "in negotiation", "deep pocket", "may buy later".

This will help us a lot after we have hundreds of leads.

The best (and our recommended) solution is to do this within your email using folders/labels, or within your CRM.

That allows you to find the leads you want and reply to them all from the same location (e.g., Gmail or Outlook).