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]

It would be very useful for the seller to be able to add a description

It is at the top of the list of the upcoming upgrades...I wish we would get a firm time frame (in a week, 1st week of Oct, etc). I've got to set aside some time to get the descriptions added...going to take a lot of coffee in that period!

I know it is likely too late, but it is not my fault for not mentioning it before. It would be nice if we could have 2 or 3 fields in which to enter information. There is some info I would like to enter for each name to show that I might want to change in bulk, however information specific to that domain would have another paragraph/section for entering details. Regardless of how it works, the description field will be a great addition.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It would be very useful for the seller to be able to add a description, some information about the domain e.g. possible uses, CPC, if the domain is an acronym it would be very useful to be able to add to the description the words it consists of etc.

It's nearly ready!

I wish we would get a firm time frame (in a week, 1st week of Oct, etc). I've got to set aside some time to get the descriptions added...going to take a lot of coffee in that period!

Most likely next week.

It'll be optional, so you can take your time to add descriptions.

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

It's nearly ready!


Most likely next week.

It'll be optional, so you can take your time to add descriptions.

That's great I am looking forward to it

 

[alcy]

It's nearly ready!


Most likely next week.

It'll be optional, so you can take your time to add descriptions.

so I checked the double offer email. how the hell did u know gmail embellishes wordings just to mke it look better... well it worked.. they fooled me. hwoever both emails still have 9.11 timestamps... so u think he clicked twice on send or what?

 

[Future Sensors]

@Bravo Mod Team I was just walking downtown to do some shopping and heard a group of people shouting that they really want CSV now. I managed to calm down the leader of the group after 20 minutes, but the discontent in society surprised me. They are planning to protest in other cities as well.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It would be nice if we could have 2 or 3 fields in which to enter information. There is some info I would like to enter for each name to show that I might want to change in bulk, however information specific to that domain would have another paragraph/section for entering details.

There will be two: fields for a short description and a long description. You can use either, both, or neither. Check out the initial version to get an idea of how that will look, but note that this design has since changed and looks even better now.

You could use the global profile settings to add a short description on all domains and then use the long description on individual domains to add information specific to each domain name.

It's rather flexible.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

how the hell did u know gmail embellishes wordings just to mke it look better... well it worked..

both emails still have 9.11 timestamps... so u think he clicked twice on send or what?

Yeah, the buyer must have clicked the button twice. We make that difficult to do, but it's up to their browser to honor it.

You can visit the inquiry page of each of those two submissions to see the date that the buyer confirmed their email address for each inquiry:

It's unlikely that a buyer would confirm two inquiries within the same minute, but it's not impossible.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Most likely next week.

It'll be optional, so you can take your time to add descriptions.

This is great news!

I will block off some time now...woohoo!

 

[alcy]

It's nearly ready!


Most likely next week.

It'll be optional, so you can take your time to add descriptions.

also...can u plz briefly comment how np landers interact with ad blockers ..any issues reported or extra coding measures taken by u to prevent issues? ty

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

how np landers interact with ad blockers ..any issues reported or extra coding measures taken by u to prevent issues? ty

In our tests, all major ad blockers allow our landing pages. They have no reason to block our landers; their customers (potential buyers) want to be able to contact sellers.

Still, if they ever try to block our landers, then we'll take every measure necessary to circumvent them.

We have extensive experience bypassing ad blockers. You can install an ad blocker and confirm that the ads on our site still show.

You can count on us!

 

[NameGroove]

There will be two: fields for a short description and a long description. You can use either, both, or neither. Check out the initial version to get an idea of how that will look, but note that this design has since changed and looks even better now.

You could use the global profile settings to add a short description on all domains and then use the long description on individual domains to add information specific to each domain name.

It's rather flexible.

When is this rolling out?

 

[Mister Funsky]

Most likely next week.

When is this rolling out?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

When is this rolling out?

Within 7 days, unless something unforeseen happens.

 

[T-B]

Amazing tool, well done, I'm sure it will help to many in the domaining community!
Two important improvements:

1. Bulk update prices and "payment method". Can be done maybe using a .csv file or entering manually in this format:
   domain1,price1
   domain2,price2
   etc.
2. Export inquiries (you mentioned it exists but I can't find this feature).

Another suggestion - I like to use Sedo "External Transfer" service for domain escrow transactions, their fee is just 3%! Maybe you can add an option for buyers to enter their Sedo account details (username & email-address) or even send the request directly to Sedo...

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Bulk update prices and "payment method". Can be done maybe using a .csv file or entering manually in this format:
domain1,price1
domain2,price2
etc.

We're aiming to have that ready next week, too.

Export inquiries (you mentioned it exists but I can't find this feature).

Currently, it's per domain name. You can export all inquiries for each domain name:

We'll expand it to all inquiries across all domains in a single export in the future.

That should be quick to add.

I like to use Sedo "External Transfer" service for domain escrow transactions, their fee is just 3%! Maybe you can add an option for buyers to enter their Sedo account details (username & email-address) or even send the request directly to Sedo...

Excellent idea! We've reached out to Sedo about integration options.

For reference:

• Secure Domain Transfer: "Available even for agreements reached outside of our marketplace"
• Protection for Deals Made Outside of Sedo: "Use our reliable Transfer Service even for agreements reached outside of our platform."
• External Transfer Service: "Fees start at just 3% of the Sale price"

Thanks.

 

[korganian]

Email is probably most effective, but:

​

Phone is also good.

A big sale through NamePros lander was stalled because the buyer refused to use escrow.com after he read their reviews online. I called escrowdomains.com and spoke to their attorney who handles domain escrow transactions. His name is Reggie and he is very congenial. When I asked him about the hassles implemented by escrow.com over KYC, he agreed to accept a simple video chat with the buyer showing his credentials. I encouraged him to reach out to integrate with Namepros.

 

[Skyvisum]

A big sale through NamePros lander was stalled because the buyer refused to use escrow.com after he read their reviews online. I called escrowdomains.com and spoke to their attorney who handles domain escrow transactions. His name is Reggie and he is very congenial. When I asked him about the hassles implemented by escrow.com over KYC, he agreed to accept a simple video chat with the buyer showing his credentials. I encouraged him to reach out to integrate with Namepros.

Try using Dan or Atom to close .If escrowdomains is going to act congenial, I won't be using them ..

 

[Mister Funsky]

the buyer refused to use escrow.com

I've used the Godaddy checkout link...it was seamless and fairly quick.

 

[RapidNames.com]

I've used the Godaddy checkout link...it was seamless and fairly quick.

but commission is higher than others.

 

[Mister Funsky]

but commission is higher than others.

Not sure what you are charged, but my last transaction was 5%. Please share with us any lower percentages you have found.

https://blog.afternic.com/custom-checkout-link/