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]

This is what you want to see in your Analytics.

 

[Innoverge]

It’s not necessary, but that space is available and might as well be used in a productive way.

Would you like it to say something else?

"Just one available" makes no sense.These aren't tchotchkes being sold on Amazon.With domains it's always only one.
I'd rather you remove that all together and leave it blank.The options on the page are pretty much self-explanatory.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'd rather you remove that

You can remove it by using the recommended option:

• Price display: Hide pricing until email is confirmed [Recommended]

"Just one available" makes no sense.

Here's the idea behind it:

The confusion can lead to the intended benefit:

“Why is it saying there is only one available? What does it mean by that? Oh, if I don’t buy this one and someone else does, I won’t be able to buy it? Wow, maybe I need to buy it quickly.”

#EducationInThreeWords

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With domains it's always only one.

That's what it says; it makes the buyer aware that this is their only chance to acquire it before it's gone forever.

We're happy to change the heading text but not remove that area. Let us know what you'd like it to say instead.

We'll run a poll once we have a few options. So far, we only have two options for the poll:

1. Just one available
2. Your future website name

 

[Dane]

You can remove it by using the recommended option:

• Price display: Hide pricing until email is confirmed [Recommended]

Here's the idea behind it:

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That's what it says; it makes the buyer aware that this is their only chance to acquire it before it's gone forever.

We're happy to change the heading text but not remove that area. Let us know what you'd like it to say instead.

We'll run a poll once we have a few options. So far, we only have two options for the poll:

1. Just one available
2. Your future website name

Wouldn't it make more sense to say something like "There's only one example.com" rather than "Just one available"? Maybe follow it up with something like "Make it yours today" or "Make it your website name"?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

"There's only one example.com"

Domains can be very long and take up several lines in such a narrow area.

"Make it yours today" or "Make it your website name"?

Excellent suggestions; thank you!

Let's add those to our list:

• Just one available
• Your future website name
• There's only one
• Make it yours today
• Make it your website name

Any others for consideration? Anyone can suggest them!

We'll do a public poll on Monday.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Any others for consideration?

Okay, just spitballing below. Everyone/Anyone feel free to improve/use/adjust any you might see fit.

a) act now before it's too late
b) don't miss this opportunity
c) it all starts with a great domain
d) act now before your competitor does
e) your new name is available
f) you found this name, so will your customers
g) define your identity on the web
h) get this name before someone else does
i) acquire this asset now
j) bring your idea to life
k) there is only one [domain name]
l) get immediate online presence now
m) improve your online presence

 

[Dane]

k) there is only one [domain name]

My favorite

 

[internext]

• There's only one
• Make it yours

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team

Could you please show us what a buyer sees when filling out the required lander information? Especially when a price is set with a minimum, acceptable offer.

Thanks

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Could you please show us what a buyer sees when filling out the required lander information? Especially when a price is set with a minimum, acceptable offer.

That’s a good idea to have a guide that shows them all; there are a lot of different aspects.

Until then, try it on yours. You can use the same email address.

 

[Future Sensors]

We'll do a public poll on Monday.

From a pragmatic perspective, I recommend incorporating, like, three selectable options in the dashboard, along with an optional fourth free text field where Sellers can input a concise and appealing call-to-action (CTA) of their choice. Additionally, instead of a poll for this single feature, I suggest launching a (broader) Landing Page Design Contest as soon as possible, where the community can provide a variety of attractive landing page designs featuring the most important CTA elements that have proven to be effective elsewhere.

 

[Name2go]

Okay, just spitballing below. Everyone/Anyone feel free to improve/use/adjust any you might see fit.

c) it all starts with a great domain

c) appeals to me straight away

Is it allowed to add ideas?
1 because success has a name
2 your place of business is worldwide
3 love what you do
4 this is your business plan
5 don't worry go online

 

[NorthernDomains]

Until then, try it on yours. You can use the same email address

Sure, but that means my queries appear in my feed, and there is no way to delete them.

 

[Molly]

Hey @Bravo Mod Team. As an end user, I’m usually hesitant to disclose contact details. As Seller’s, we’re not asking so we can spam people, however, nor to sell their contact info, etc. We’re asking to verify they’re human (essentially).

So, why not just say that? …Please enter your contact details to verify you’re human. (As a buyer, that’s reasonable.) And we already tell them in the line above that the price is instantly available, which I like, btw. Thoughts? Thanks!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

As an end user, I’m usually hesitant to disclose contact details. As Seller’s, we’re not asking so we can spam people, however, nor to sell their contact info, etc. We’re asking to verify they’re human (essentially).

So, why not just say that? …Please enter your contact details to verify you’re human. (As a buyer, that’s reasonable.) And we already tell them in the line above that the price is instantly available, which I like, btw. Thoughts? Thanks!

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Very smart!

“Please” can come across as desperate, but the human part is brilliant.

The only question is whether other sellers will appreciate it as much as us.

Any objections to this update by anyone?

 

[Future Sensors]

Hi @Molly

(Please) Note that the form does not indicate that the next step involves confirming their email address. As a result, in your proposal, users may enter random or incorrect information, believing that the sole purpose is to prove they are human.

 

[Molly]

Hi @Molly

(Please) Note that the form does not indicate that the next step involves confirming their email address. As a result, in your proposal, users may enter random or incorrect information, believing that the sole purpose is to prove they are human.

That’s true, @Future Sensors. But how likely is that to happen? How many people visit domains for sale JUST to get a sneak-peek at a BIN? IMO, the benefit of my proposal outweighs this risk.

 

[Future Sensors]

But how often is that likely to happen?

Often, because of this:

As an end user, I’m usually hesitant to disclose contact details.

 

[Future Sensors]

Trust in the landing page ("who will receive my information?") is crucial and can/must/should be enhanced in various ways. It's important to avoid framing the process as "proving that you are human" if that isn't the actual objective. Regardless of my opinion on whether it's a good idea to display the BIN immediately, or not.

 

[internext]

Note that the form does not indicate that the next step involves confirming their email address

The same problem exists as it's written now (to check the price). It doesn't imply the price will be emailed