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!

 

[SpareDomains]

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.

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.

Nobody is a better salesperson for your own domains than yourself. This also eliminates...

1)Brokers that respond slow
2)Brokers that don't fight for your sales
3)Brokers that are staring at their own companies massive portfolio for alternate replacements to your domain
4)Slow payments
etc...

Paying 15%-30% commission and losing the lead information is insanity as they can continually market to them. Anonymous sales definitely eliminates building your own end user database and possible repeat sales.

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

@Bravo Mod Team I noticed 2 issues maybe it's just me, the first is that I can't scroll down the description bar to go to the last sentence (10) and second is that when I press backspace, instead of removing the blank space at the selected point it removes a letter from the word that is 7 words after the one I want to remove. I know it sounds confusing so please see attached:

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

@Bravo Mod Team I noticed 2 issues maybe it's just me, the first is that I can't scroll down the description bar to go to the last sentence (10) and second is that when I press backspace, instead of removing the blank space at the selected point it removes a letter from the word that is 7 words after the one I want to remove. I know it sounds confusing so please see attached:

Does it work if you refresh the page?

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

Does it work if you refresh the page?

No I've tried many times, I can edit the description the way I want only on my phone.

 

[alcy]

No I've tried many times, I can edit the description the way I want only on my phone.

do earth people seriously stll use anything other than fine to connect.. why pick a desktop laptop or even tablet when u can literally hold the world in palm of your hand... earth folk are just so odd... no wonder nobody wants visit u

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

do earth people seriously stll use anything other than fine to connect.. why pick a desktop laptop or even tablet when u can literally hold the world in palm of your hand... earth folk are just so odd... no wonder nobody wants visit u

I don't want the maximum capacity of my iphone to drop below 100% so that when I resell it I will not have to reduce the price even more because of it. That's why I use a laptop

 

[TheBuyerz]

@Bravo Mod Team What do you think about something like this: zshare.com (check the short description).

Talking about: 20 inquiries already recieved since Apr 11, 2024.

It will encourage people to make more offers and purchases.

 

[Jannes]

Talking about: 20 inquiries already recieved since Apr 11, 2024.

It will encourage people to make more offers and purchases.

I'd like to hear more opinions on that (so thanks for bringing it up) since sometimes social proof can backfire. For instance, there's the danger that a high number of inquiries without a sale "proves" that the seller is asking too much.

(In this particular instance, the sentence is confusing when it follows and is actually surrounded by the .net sale info. Which one has received 20 inquiries?)

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I noticed 2 issues maybe it's just me, the first is that I can't scroll down the description bar to go to the last sentence (10) and second is that when I press backspace, instead of removing the blank space at the selected point it removes a letter from the word that is 7 words after the one I want to remove. I know it sounds confusing so please see attached:

In case anyone else experiences this browser issue, here’s how to fix it using a workaround until our permanent solution is released:

This problem has been solved on our development build, thank you for your help! It might take a while for us to get this live, in the mean time then if you resize the window at all then it will fix these issues.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

@Bravo Mod Team What do you think about something like this: zshare.com (check the short description).

Talking about: 20 inquiries already recieved since Apr 11, 2024.

It will encourage people to make more offers and purchases.

Love it! This option should already be on our to-do list, but we’ll double check.

sometimes social proof can backfire. For instance, there's the danger that a high number of inquiries without a sale "proves" that the seller is asking too much.

Excellent point. With that in mind, we may want to make it something that can be disabled for each domain name.

Maybe it’s only shown if the number of inquires is within a certain range?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Merged with previous post.

 

[TheBuyerz]

I'd like to hear more opinions on that (so thanks for bringing it up) since sometimes social proof can backfire. For instance, there's the danger that a high number of inquiries without a sale "proves" that the seller is asking too much.

(In this particular instance, the sentence is confusing when it follows and is actually surrounded by the .net sale info. Which one has received 20 inquiries?)

It proves also too much interests on the domain name and are real inquiries compared to the “Hurry, only a few left!” widgets that we see on most drop shipping websites (that convert sales - but not legit IMO and I don't approve that personally).

 

[boziffous]

I would prefer it if the BIN was visible on the initial landing page, along with a checkout button, instead of potential buyers having to enter in their contact details first to be able to see the purchase price.

 

[NameGroove]

I would prefer it if the BIN was visible on the initial landing page, along with a checkout button, instead of potential buyers having to enter in their contact details first to be able to see the purchase price.

I've mentioned this many times to NP. However, this was not the intention for the birth of the NP landers, which were created to capture emails. If you want price shown, Bodis offers free landers. I use them and make sales through them

 

[HotKey]

do earth people seriously stll use anything other than fine to connect.. why pick a desktop laptop or even tablet when u can literally hold the world in palm of your hand... earth folk are just so odd... no wonder nobody wants visit u

b/c phones suck unless text or calls which is what they were made for. Or just be cool squinting at 4x6 picture frame to conquer the world. Free yourself from mobile chains dude.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would prefer it if the BIN was visible on the initial landing page, along with a checkout button, instead of potential buyers having to enter in their contact details first to be able to see the purchase price.

There will be an option soon to show the price first.

If you want price shown, Bodis offers free landers. I use them and make sales through them

They do offer this one option, but their landers may be inaccessible to millions of potential buyers, which is the last thing you want if your intention is to sell your domains.

While they can temporarily unblock themselves with enough effort and time, there are big organizations like uBlock who will work just as hard to repeatedly block them.

That’s fine for ads, but if you’re trying to sell your domains, it could cost you sales.

Also, they have less than half the features that we have when it comes to for-sale landers, and we are adding new significant features every month.

 

[Future Sensors]

There will be an option soon to show the price first.

 

[Future Sensors]

While they can temporarily unblock themselves with enough effort and time, there are big organizations like uBlock who will work just as hard to repeatedly block them.

For completeness, blocking of parked pages can occur on many different levels. This can include network-level filtering, browser-based blocking, and more.

Here’s one example with filtering on “Parked Domains” in OpenDNS. OpenDNS allows users to filter out parked domains by categorizing them and applying appropriate filtering rules.

https://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/categories

There are more examples of this:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/bodis-uniregistry-or-efty.1017871/page-3#post-6444098

 

[Future Sensors]

Please be aware that voting for categorization under “Parked Domains” might also impact the main forum domain.

 

[SpareDomains]

For completeness, blocking of parked pages can occur on many different levels. This can include network-level filtering, browser-based blocking, and more.

Here’s one example with filtering on “Parked Domains” in OpenDNS. OpenDNS allows users to filter out parked domains by categorizing them and applying appropriate filtering rules.

https://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/categories

There are more examples of this:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/bodis-uniregistry-or-efty.1017871/page-3#post-6444098

This is one reason I've favored having the domain names actually resolve on the domain name itself instead of a common url structure that's easy to block sedo.com/ afternic.com/ etc...

Efty and Dan etc... allow the domains to resolve to the actual urls, these days maybe Dan doesn't work as well on that as previously due to SSL issues though.

I've never had a blocking issue on my own sales sites but that's because the amount of domains is way less than a Sedo or Afternic but I still prefer when they resolve to the actual url with no provider shown.

Pretty easy to block when millions of domains use the same url structure.