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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!

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.

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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.
  • Exports: Download your 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!)
  • ✅ 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.
  • ⏳ Payment Plans: Payment buttons for lease-to-own (LTO) and renting, e.g., “$995/mo for 8 months”
  • ✅ 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).
  • ⏳ Portfolio Website: A sharable storefront of the domains in your account with search and filters.
  • ✅ 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.
  • ✅ 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.
  • ⏳ File Imports: Add domains to your account and set their prices by uploading spreadsheet files (e.g., .CSV).
  • ✅ 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.
  • ⏳ Account notifications: Inquiry summaries and account notices about your parked domains, sent by email.
  • ✅ 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.

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! 🤯
 
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hover text (endorsement) on short & long description is mandatory ?

Can we move it to privacy page?
 

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please allow to add image (with limited size) in long description area, that would be great.
 
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I have tried to eliminate some deleted/deleting domains by uploaded the list again. It found some other errors too. Originally everything was approved, but now there are some other errors too. Which seem to be mostly typos with my new list. What is the best way to delete some domains from my sales list. I processed aprox 1540 domains but there were only about 430 processed. What happenned to the rest? I'm now pretty confused. Is there any chance to I can go back to the position before this last update about 6 hours ago?

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Stu
 
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I was looking at the NP Lander for one of my domain names.

When filling in the OFFER, once you click into that field next to USD, the NumericUpDown arrows appear.
I don't think that is needed -- it might actually stop the user from putting in a value. For instance, they start to write 100 but realize once they type 1 the arrows go up/down in increments of 1 dollar

This might indicate to an end user that they can get the domain name cheap and stop typing what they were originally going to offer. What I mean is if they see the up/down arrows move in increments of 1 dollar, they are more likely to think it's possible to get something for maybe $5 or $10 -- because they moved that up arrow alot in their minds.

I would change that field to be freeform numeric (no up/down arrows). Just validate that they entered a valid numeric
 
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I was looking at the NP Lander for one of my domain names.

When filling in the OFFER, once you click into that field next to USD, the NumericUpDown arrows appear.
I don't think that is needed -- it might actually stop the user from putting in a value. For instance, they start to write 100 but realize once they type 1 the arrows go up/down in increments of 1 dollar

This might indicate to an end user that they can get the domain name cheap and stop typing what they were originally going to offer. What I mean is if they see the up/down arrows move in increments of 1 dollar, they are more likely to think it's possible to get something for maybe $5 or $10 -- because they moved that up arrow alot in their minds.

I would change that field to be freeform numeric (no up/down arrows). Just validate that they entered a valid numeric

@Bravo Mod Team ,this sounds tricky. I support this suggestion to have it removed.
 
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I would change that field to be freeform numeric (no up/down arrows). Just validate that they entered a valid numeric
Agreed, don’t know why that’s there. We’ll remove it.

Edited to note that it seems to be added there by the browser. It does not appear on mobile.
 
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hover text (endorsement) on short & long description is mandatory ?

Can we move it to privacy page?

I agree...the hover part is a little much. Privacy page would be enough as it is already disclaimed by the large line at the bottom "Descriptions are provided by the seller."
 
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hover text (endorsement) on short & long description is mandatory ?

Can we move it to privacy page?
We can probably do this for VIPs, but it might be too much of a liability if we did it for non-VIPs.
 
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Agreed, don’t know why that’s there. We’ll remove it.

Edited to note that it seems to be added there by the browser. It does not appear on mobile.
Interesting -- just tried on Chrome and Edge -- both put that Up/Down arrow there.
My iPhone did NOT (like you said).

You have alot of data -- does one of your data points indicate Mobile vs. Desktop/Browser? It would be interesting how many single-digit offers come in across all offers made are from Desktop Browser.

I have quite a few offers of $1, $3, $5, $10 (before putting in the MIN across my entire portfolio) and wondering if all of those came from a Desktop Browser that displayed the up/down arrow
 
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I have tried to eliminate some deleted/deleting domains by uploaded the list again. It found some other errors too. Originally everything was approved, but now there are some other errors too. Which seem to be mostly typos with my new list. What is the best way to delete some domains from my sales list. I processed aprox 1540 domains but there were only about 430 processed. What happenned to the rest? I'm now pretty confused. Is there any chance to I can go back to the position before this last update about 6 hours ago?
Did most of the domains show as “Ignored”? The status “Ignored” just means that they were already approved and are actively listed in your account. That status is a good one because it indicates no problems, just duplicate entries.

Please feel free to send us a direct message if you’d like to privately share anything with us (e.g., a screenshot of your imports page) so we can assist better.
 
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You have alot of data -- does one of your data points indicate Mobile vs. Desktop/Browser? It would be interesting how many single-digit offers come in across all offers made are from Desktop Browser.
It’s probably a better use of our resources to just stop the arrows from showing rather than to analyze their prior impact. 😊
 
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I think it would be interesting/fun to experiment with two mandatory fields, one below the other:

1/ My current offer for this domain
2/ My maximum budget for this domain
 
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As a follow-up question, what strategy would you adopt when presented with these two mandatory fields, as a buyer, @Bravo Mod Team?
 
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As a follow-up question, what strategy would you adopt when presented with these two mandatory fields, as a buyer, @Bravo Mod Team?
Most buyers don’t have any context of what they’re doing when they’re making an offer. They would probably assume they’re dealing with someone acting on their behalf and input their true maximum budget.

A savvy buyer would not share their maximum budget, even with a broker or representative of theirs.

It’s a very interesting idea!
 
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It’s a very interesting idea!
Thanks. Experimenting with "My maximum budget" vs "My offer" is interesting, too (only one of those fields presented).
 
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A savvy buyer would not share their maximum budget, even with a broker or representative of theirs.
Exactly. That's why I asked precisely this. When confronted with those two mandatory fields, it really gets interesting. If that's the only way to get in touch with Seller, by the way.

It is a sign of negotiating power that is subtly radiated.
 
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Please feel free to show off your landers with descriptions in this thread! 🤩
 
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Woohoo! A happy day in domaining for sure...thank you!

The description boxes are an awesome addition...these are VERY important to me.
 
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The header alignment could be improved.
Suggestions?

It looks beautiful for domains that are average length or longer.

Admittedly, it doesn’t look as nice for short domains. 😔

Edit: Maybe the domain just needs to have a larger font size when the domain is short.
 
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Please feel free to show off your landers with descriptions in this thread! 🤩
Why did it take this long to create a lander for the community? 😃
This is welcome development and I hope others will join and enjoy being a member of Namepros .

This is giving back 👏 Really appreciate all the hardworking developers and staff of working behind the scene .
 
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