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!

 

[TheBuyerz]

I have some suggestions:

- Ability to add a description will be also a good thing, to show stats, number of other extensions taken, and the power of the domain name.

- Add a quick SIGN IN via Google, Facebook, and other social networks to show the price quickly by simply clicking (it's easier than writing and we will get more emails on the list). And also no need to check for a confirmation link on email and click on it ect... Buyer will avoid many steps.

- When disable branding, NamePros logo should stay, only "Free domain parking provided by NamePros" should disappear.

Just my 2cents.

 

[Jannes]

Got them all redirected here.

Example: zshare.com

zshare doesn't resolve?

 

[johnn]

To be honest, I would not try anything new.
Beside, why take a chance on your investment? No commission means nothing if you have No Sale.
There are too many things you have to deal with yourself.
You can't beat the features from other marketplaces: Connect direct with salereps (Afternic/Godaddy), Escrow Services, SEO from these site, etc...
There is nothing free, If you use this one you agree to advertise for Namepros - It's the same concept for free Hosting - with advertising.

 

[Dane]

Is there a way to remove our Namepros username? I'd rather not display that on every landing page.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Is there a way to remove our Namepros username? I'd rather not display that on every landing page.

You do it under "parking profile" tab.

 

[Dane]

You do it under "parking profile" tab.

I found it. Thanks!

 

[rh2000]

Got them all redirected here.

Example: zshare.com

Looks good. All they need is a make offer option and I just might give this a try.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

No one wants inbound calls - no one. And not sure how company name helps. A large org won't include it and a small orgs name makes no diff

Our data indicates otherwise.

Serious buyers, especially those at companies, are accustomed to filling out that information in professional dealings (e.g., commercial transactions), and it is very useful information to qualify buyers or to reach them if their inbox is inundated with emails (e.g., your emails got buried, filed under the "Promotions" tab, or went to spam).

A quick text message to a buyer to ask for an update can be the difference between a buyer going cold vs. keeping them engaged until the deal is sealed.

These optional fields can provide a lot of value in the right hands.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

zshare doesn't resolve?

This is because the seller has DNSSEC enabled on this domain name, possibly by accident or by forgetting to remove it.

DNSSEC causes the domain to not resolve because we did not provide the public key that they're using. It probably came from a former DNS provider.

This kind of misconfiguration of DNSSEC causes the domain name to not load for many visitors. We bring this issue to your attention by refusing to verify the domain name until you fix it by removing DNSSEC. This way, you don’t miss out on potential buyers who can’t access the domain name.


@TheBuyerz, please be sure to disable DNSSEC on the domains that you're parking. If it's enabled, those domains cannot resolve (i.e., they cannot show a website).

Here's more technical information:

• https://dns.google/query?name=zshare.com

We hope that helps.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I have some suggestions:

- Ability to add a description will be also a good thing, to show stats, number of other extensions taken, and the power of the domain name.

- Add a quick SIGN IN via Google, Facebook, and other social networks to show the price quickly by simply clicking (it's easier than writing and we will get more emails on the list). And also no need to check for a confirmation link on email and click on it ect... Buyer will avoid many steps.

- When disable branding, NamePros logo should stay, only "Free domain parking provided by NamePros" should disappear.

Just my 2cents.

Excellent suggestions!

We appreciate you sharing them.

Please also see our previous post for you: disable DNSSEC.

Thanks.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

To be honest, I would not try anything new.

Businesses that do not evolve always perish.

Stay vigilant, and always adapt.

If you use this one you agree to advertise for Namepros

Yesterday, we added an option to remove NamePros branding from parked pages. Several members are already using it.

You can't beat the features from other marketplaces: Connect direct with salereps (Afternic/Godaddy), Escrow Services, SEO from these site, etc...

That's not true. These features are not complex or technically difficult.

1. Sales Reps: Using a qualified domain broker is just as good, if not better. Brokers can use our parking service on your behalf, which is already happening successfully for some sellers.
2. Escrow Services: Our integration of Escrow.com means that parking with us is as good or better than the escrow services provided by other marketplaces, and the others take up to 25%.
3. SEO: Last we checked, we received something like 70% of our traffic from search engines. Our SEO is very strong.

Thanks for sharing your concerns with us.

 

[silentg]

How the landing page looks on M1 Mac Air: Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Opera.
Only looks good on Safari.

 

[equity78]

Why free? Now before everyone loses their mind, I am not saying that's not great that it's being offered for free. But this could get very popular with a lot of domainers using it, so a lot of work for Namepros with no benefit to them if people disable the Namepros branding. I have seen great offerings go from free to the provider being over worked and then having to charge or shut it down.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Looks good. All they need is a make offer option and I just might give this a try.

We have a standard make offer option; it's the default.

Without a price set on the domain name, it shows a make offer form instead.

Are you requesting a make offer option shown alongside the buy now option on the same parked page?

Let us know.

 

[Paul]

How the landing page looks on M1 Mac Air: Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Opera.
Only looks good on Safari.
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Are you overriding the font family or font size? Here's how it looks for me in Firefox on my M1 MacBook Pro:

Edit: We're going to push an update that will attempt to override the browser's preferences so that it will display correctly in browsers that have been customized.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Are you suggesting a make offer option shown along with the buy now option?

This would be a nice option to have.

I don't use it on all names (only a certain few), but those that can 'benefit' from this method would appreciate it being available.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Why free? Now before everyone loses their mind, I am not saying that's not great that it's being offered for free. But this could get very popular with a lot of domainers using it, so a lot of work for Namepros with no benefit to them if people disable the Namepros branding.

I wondered the same. I am a huge fan of free things, but worry about sustainability.

By the way, while I thought the previous NamePros branding was heavy, allowing it turned off entirely may be too generous. I think subtle NamePros branding can actually help the sales lander, and help NamePros.

-Bob

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

so a lot of work for Namepros with no benefit to them if people disable the Namepros branding. I have seen great offerings go from free to the provider being over worked

Yeah. We humbly request that members don't disable the branding unless they feel strongly about it, or upgrade to Gold to support us.

That said:

Our goal is to help, so if the choice is between using our parking without NamePros branding or not using our parking at all, then please disable branding to use us.

I have seen great offerings go from free to the provider being over worked and then having to charge or shut it down.

NamePros has successfully withstood the test of time while many others have faltered, and we'll continue to do our best to provide value for as long as we can. We hope to do that in a mutually beneficial way that allows us all to thrive sustainably.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. We appreciate it.

 

[silentg]

I downloaded the Xenforo default font and replaced the existing font. It was bold before and now it's regular style but It didn't fix the domain being cut off.

 

[equity78]

Yeah. We humbly request that members don't disable the branding unless they feel very strongly about it.

That said:

Our goal is to help, so if the choice is between using our parking without NamePros branding or not using our parking at all, then please disable branding to use us.


NamePros has successfully withstood the test of time while many others have faltered, and we'll continue to do our best to provide value for as long as we can. We hope to do that in a mutually beneficial way that allows us all to thrive sustainably.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. We appreciate it.

I think some and possibly many will, due to the fact if an end user finds out about Namepros and does spend a bit of time they will come across the marketplace (Which I think should only be available to members) There should be no ability for someone not a member to see anything for sale at Namepros. Now look a really smart end user might join.

But there will be one of two scenarios playing out, A buyer is a real buyer, they see Zshare.com for sale, they do what they have to do to see the price, like the price and buy. Great.


Number 2 a prospect might say Namepros hmmm I am not a domain investor what's going on there? Oh shit people sell names for $5 here but boss when I go to the name itself it's listed on some guy's website named DAN and they are asking $3,000. Well Johnson join Namepros and pay $5 get on it.

It really does come down to each member deciding on how likely it will be for an end user to check out Namepros.

I have been here a long time I can say I have had two interactions where an end user who had no idea there was a domaining community came across the forum. One time it was someone emailing me that they came across an article about BrandBucket in search, it was an article I wrote and the article had a link to our BrandBucket discussion here. They then just checked around Namepros and saw BrandBucket listings for $20 - $30. They could not believe a name they were considering buying was listed for $7800 and was $30 here. They emailed me telling me they read my article and wanted to know if it was some kind of scam? I said no Namepros is legit it's not a scam. They were not thinking Namepros the site was a scam but were thinking how can this be $30 when on BrandBucket it's $7800? I said I don't know might be a mistake. Now I knew but I did not want to hurt someone else's potential sale. I am not going to be like oh yeah you got the ok to spend $7800 but go buy it for $30.

On another occasion I was brokering a name where there was an old listing on Namepros. The person I was brokering it for was not the member here who had it for sale years ago, but the prospect mention in the first email, "I am aware this name is very cheap on a website called Namepros" I had to look it up after I mentioned to my client, you have this priced wholesale on Namepros? They were like I don't belong to Namepros. It turned out it was a fairly old listing but I guess in Googling the prospect came across it in the serps.

So I think many will disable the branding out of those kinds of fears. But it is a great service you are offering for free. Can you say what brokerage is having the success with the landers?