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!

 

[NorthernDomains]

There's no traffic info for parked domains or am I just bad at looking?

The traffic information comes from Google Analytics. You need to set it up and get your Google Tag ID, then add it to your profile and settings.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

There's no traffic info for parked domains or am I just bad at looking?

Here’s our guide to help you enable it:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/ho...le-analytics-with-free-landing-pages.1044802/

Let us know if you need any help.

 

[Optimal Names]

For those who set up Google Analytics, and also understand GA, perhaps some can shed some light into what I am looking at?

For the particular day I chose there are 2,811 views.
I viewed a report of "Page path and screen class" + City and noticed some odd things. If I use "Landing Page" the information below doesnt show, but its still there - its still happening. So I would like to get some insight on it.
I get an enormous amount of traffic from cities like Boardman, Council Bluffs, New York, Ashburn, San Jose -- apparently these are Amazon data center locations?
I would really like to filter out much of this so I am left with real, true traffic but not sure how to go about that. In doing that I would also like to understand what all of this is, not just sweep it under the rug.
Thanks, I am not very up to speed with analytics but learning it slowly.

1) About 50% of the views on this day are from City = "(not set") with 90% of that traffic being from United States.
Is it normal to have that many "not set" city names?


2) Here is an example of some interesting subdomain names in visits for this day (but are present any day):
Why are there domain names in the subdomain names?
/parked/2c8b3f19-0325-4acc-a3dd-31a918e4dbf5.random.<my-domain-name-here>.com
/parked/059879e5-b2e8-4f58-aa46-95f69d92aa34.random.<my-domain-name-here>.com
/parked/8ceb7d00-2a97-11ec-91f8-7446a0f559b0.<my-domain-name-here>.com
/parked/view/ (but my domain name doesnt show after "view", its just as seen)
/parked/prestigeremodelingandconstruction.net.<my-domain-name-here>.com
(and many more)


3) And these various (but no way exhaustive) subdomain names in front of my domain names. Almost all of these have 3, 4, 5 or more visits each:
Why so many "mx." and multiples of "mx." as the subdomain? I am aware that "mx" has to do with mail servers but why so many "mx.", even "www.www." in front of the domain they're visiting?
Also, why so many various acc, app, booking, bot, ebay and so many other subdomains in front of the domain they're visiting?
Are all of these indication of bots? If so, I would love to know how to filter these so I do not see them.

This does not all correspond 1:1 with the city = "(not set)", I can get these with many cities where the name is populated.
/parked/academy.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/acc.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/analytic.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/api.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/app.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/booking.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/bot.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/ebay.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/getsimnum.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/gitlab.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/h5.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/home.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/m.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/mobiwebc.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/report.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/support.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/t2.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/trial.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/v1.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/vmail.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/webapp.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/ww.gm.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/ww01.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.demo.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.ebay.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.mx.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.mx.mx.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.mx.mx.mx.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.mx.mx.mx.mx.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.mx.mx.mx.mx.mx.mx.mx.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.old.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.status.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.www.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/www.www.www.<my-domain-name-here>
/parked/wx.<my-domain-name-here>
(and many more)

 

[Future Sensors]

Are all of these indication of bots?

Bots, scripts that will test for exploits, rogue crawlers, you will see it all RAW here.

That's my contribution for now.

@Bravo Mod Team is better in explaining all this in more detail

 

[NorthernDomains]

Boardman, Council Bluffs, New York, Ashburn

As far as I have figured out, these visits are from bots. Sometimes, Google cannot find the user's location and marks it as Boardman, Ashburn, etc.

You can filter out bot traffic in your analytics account, but this does not work well. You'll still see unwanted traffic.

 

[Optimal Names]

As far as I have figured out, these visits are from bots. Sometimes, Google cannot find the user's location and marks it as Boardman, Ashburn, etc.

You can filter out bot traffic in your analytics account, but this does not work well. You'll still see unwanted traffic.

This article might help- Boardman

Thank you! Will get reading on this!

 

[NorthernDomains]

Thank you! Will get reading on this!

I removed the URL because it was not very helpful. There are much better examples online to come to terms with GA bots.

 

[Optimal Names]

I removed the URL because it was not very helpful. There are much better examples online to come to terms with GA bots.

OK, thank you. No problem. The more I can read on this the more I will understand it. I appreciate the help!

 

[Future Sensors]

Here's a little help from Copilot.

Let’s break down and analyze what’s happening with your Google Analytics data:

1. High Traffic from Specific Cities​

You mentioned receiving a significant amount of traffic from cities like Boardman, Council Bluffs, New York, Ashburn, and San Jose. These locations are known to host Amazon data centers. This suggests that a large portion of your traffic might be coming from bots or automated systems running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2. “City = (not set)” Issue​

Having about 50% of your views with the city set to “(not set)” is quite high. This can happen for several reasons:

• IP Anonymization: If IP anonymization is enabled, it can prevent Google Analytics from determining the user’s location.
• Bots and Crawlers: Automated traffic often doesn’t provide location data, leading to “(not set)” entries.
• VPNs and Proxies: Users accessing your site through VPNs or proxies can also result in “(not set)” locations.

3. Odd Subdomain Names​

The presence of unusual subdomain names like /parked/2c8b3f19-0325-4acc-a3dd-31a918e4dbf5.random.<my-domain-name-here>.com suggests that these might be automated or bot-generated visits. These subdomains could be used by bots to test or scrape your site.

4. Multiple “mx.” and Other Subdomains​

Seeing multiple instances of “mx.”, “ www.www.” , and other subdomains like “acc”, “app”, “booking”, “bot”, etc., indicates bot traffic. Bots often use various subdomains to bypass security measures or to test different parts of your site.

Filtering Out Bot Traffic​

To filter out this bot traffic and focus on real user data, you can:

1. Enable Bot Filtering: In Google Analytics, go to Admin > View Settings and check the box for “Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders.”
2. Create Filters: Set up filters to exclude traffic from specific IP ranges or hostnames associated with bots.
3. Use Segments: Create segments to isolate and analyze traffic that matches typical user behavior, excluding patterns that match bot activity.

 

[NorthernDomains]

One thing you can do in your Analytics is verify time on site. Whenever you see zero seconds, you know it's a bot. For me, this is the most important metric.

The more time a human spends, the greater the chance they are a genuine client interested in your domain.

 

[Optimal Names]

Here's a little help from Copilot.

Let’s break down and analyze what’s happening with your Google Analytics data:

1. High Traffic from Specific Cities​

You mentioned receiving a significant amount of traffic from cities like Boardman, Council Bluffs, New York, Ashburn, and San Jose. These locations are known to host Amazon data centers1. This suggests that a large portion of your traffic might be coming from bots or automated systems running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2. “City = (not set)” Issue​

Having about 50% of your views with the city set to “(not set)” is quite high. This can happen for several reasons:

• IP Anonymization: If IP anonymization is enabled, it can prevent Google Analytics from determining the user’s location.
• Bots and Crawlers: Automated traffic often doesn’t provide location data, leading to “(not set)” entries.
• VPNs and Proxies: Users accessing your site through VPNs or proxies can also result in “(not set)” locations.

3. Odd Subdomain Names​

The presence of unusual subdomain names like /parked/2c8b3f19-0325-4acc-a3dd-31a918e4dbf5.random.<my-domain-name-here>.com suggests that these might be automated or bot-generated visits. These subdomains could be used by bots to test or scrape your site.

4. Multiple “mx.” and Other Subdomains​

Seeing multiple instances of “mx.”, “www.www.”, and other subdomains like “acc”, “app”, “booking”, “bot”, etc., indicates bot traffic. Bots often use various subdomains to bypass security measures or to test different parts of your site.

Filtering Out Bot Traffic​

To filter out this bot traffic and focus on real user data, you can:

1. Enable Bot Filtering: In Google Analytics, go to Admin > View Settings and check the box for “Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders.”
2. Create Filters: Set up filters to exclude traffic from specific IP ranges or hostnames associated with bots.
3. Use Segments: Create segments to isolate and analyze traffic that matches typical user behavior, excluding patterns that match bot activity.

Wow, this is great info to go on. Didnt even think of getting AI involved to ask about it so thank you!! Filtering might be more difficult than I imagined. I could be discarding legitimate traffic with the spiders and bots.. Hmm.

 

[Optimal Names]

One thing you can do in your Analytics is verify time on site. Whenever you see zero seconds, you know it's a bot. For me, this is the most important metric.

The more time a human spends, the greater the chance they are a genuine client interested in your domain.

That is very useful to know! I'm going to run reports and incluid that metric as well - see what I get. Thanks!

 

[Future Sensors]

Filtering might be more difficult than I imagined. I could be discarding legitimate traffic with the spiders and bots.. Hmm.

The key question to keep in mind is: can I actually take action based on the data I see? More often than not, the answer is 'no'.

 

[Optimal Names]

The key question to keep in mind is: can I actually take action based on the data I see? More often than not, the answer is 'no'.

What I am trying to arrive at is a genuine "view count" sans the bots, spiders, crawlers, and other creepers out there. Hopefully getting close to the count of people visiting the domain by type-in or via a link they have somewhere or whatnot.

 

[Future Sensors]

I assume that NamePros has implemented measures on their servers to block genuinely malicious traffic from reaching the landers. This means you won’t see this traffic in Google Analytics. Consider yourself fortunate!

 

[Mister Funsky]

Here’s our guide to help you enable it:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/ho...le-analytics-with-free-landing-pages.1044802/

I've just got to say this is one of the best prepared guides I've used.

Anyone wanting to add the analytics should use the link above...takes less than 10 mins!

 

[korganian]

I had leads from 5 of my domains today from NP landers. I called one of the leads and the guy is going to save up his money to afford the name before the end of the year. He had initially offered $500, but I got him to agree to $2,500 in a couple minutes over the phone.

 

[korganian]

One of my other names that also got a $500 initial offer today on my NP lander, had been pointed to Afternic lander yesterday. I got a $500 offer through Afternic for it yesterday. I changed the name servers to NP and the same lead made the same $500 offer today through NP lander.

 

[Skyvisum]

One of my other names that also got a $500 initial offer today on my NP lander, had been pointed to Afternic lander yesterday. I got a $500 offer through Afternic for it yesterday. I changed the name servers to NP and the same lead made the same $500 offer today through NP lander.

Afternic would have hidden the info. Namepros for the win . Own your lead and don't give it to any third party marketplace. More money in your pocket . No more 15%,25% commission .

Soon they would come to their senses and hope by then it would be too late and namepros landers will be on a roll .

 

[Skyvisum]

One of my other names that also got a $500 initial offer today on my NP lander, had been pointed to Afternic lander yesterday. I got a $500 offer through Afternic for it yesterday. I changed the name servers to NP and the same lead made the same $500 offer today through NP lander.

Game on .More money and sales coming. Your quality name + free namepros landers for the win.