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!)

• 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 this setting, 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 "Mark as Unreachable" 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!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I am not doing escrow.com, nor will I accept PayPal directly.

My thoughts exactly.

Just for context, the following services do not yet have API's that allow us to integrate with them, but once they do, we're certainly interested in doing so:

1. Dynadot's import your own lead (5%)
2. Escrow.Domains
3. Efty Pay (5%)
4. Afternic/GoDaddy (Custom Checkout Link at 5%)
5. Sedo (3%)

We're in discussions with every company on the above list except Dynadot, since theirs is new and we haven't reached out yet. Please help us encourage these providers to add integration options by reaching out to them directly.

Of the providers that do support integration, which should we add first? These include:

1. Stripe
2. AtomPay
3. CryptoExchange.com

From prior feedback, it was split rather evenly between Stripe and AtomPay.

Let us know which payment method everyone would like us to add first.

its up to NP if they wish to go further than they have already and handle financial transactions of this nature.

Namepros seems rather committed to NOT charging for their landers.

Our goal is to integrate with as many providers as we can to provide sellers with the power of choice.

#empowered

 

[ResoluteDomains]

Of the providers that do support integration, which should we add first? These include:

1. Stripe
2. AtomPay
3. CryptoExchange.com

Stripe, please. Thank you.

 

[Dane]

Of the providers that do support integration, which should we add first? These include:

1. Stripe
2. AtomPay
3. CryptoExchange.com

From prior feedback, it was split rather evenly between Stripe and AtomPay.

Let us know which payment method everyone would like us to add first.

I use Stripe for credit card processing and I like them, BUT... for domain name sales it might be better to have the hand-holding assistance that AtomPay can likely provide.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

I use Stripe for credit card processing and I like them, BUT... for domain name sales it might be better to have the hand-holding assistance that AtomPay can likely provide.

Does AtomPay require KYC documentation / PII to be uploaded to somewhere?

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team

Is there a way to update prices in bulk? I'm thinking of using a CSV from Afternic. Would that be possible?

 

[names2sell]

Stripe, please. Thank you.

AtomPay

 

[L3af]

Going to move my names back to afternic.

Not a VIP and don't spend enough time here to become one so the branding and links to Nampro's cheapens the trust. Makes more sense to have the Godaddy brand and pay some %. As well as having that name @ 15% on reg path.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Of the providers that do support integration, which should we add first? These include:

1. Stripe
2. AtomPay
3. CryptoExchange.com

I would say AtomPay because it is a complete domain transfer service, and not just a payment processor.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Not a VIP and don't spend enough time here to become one so the branding and links to Nampro's

The NamePros banner has been removed for everyone. You can see how that looks in our sneak peek post:

• post-9283301

That’ll be available as soon as we release the new design update.

Until then, you could remove our branding by (temporarily) upgrading to a Gold account.

Thanks for sharing your feedback.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Is there a way to update prices in bulk? I'm thinking of using a CSV from Afternic. Would that be possible?

Yes, that will be possible soon. That’s one of our two primary focuses right now: imports and design. After those, then we’ll be able to add more payment methods and finish LTO, among many other things. All coming in due time.

 

[DN Universal]

Yes, that will be possible soon. That’s one of our two primary focuses right now: imports and design. After those, then we’ll be able to add more payment methods and finish LTO, among many other things. All coming in due time.

"All coming in due time. "

Do that mean closer towards 2025.

 

[Skyvisum]

Just for context, the following services do not yet have API's that allow us to integrate with them, but once they do, we're certainly interested in doing so:

1. Dynadot's import your own lead (5%)
2. Escrow.Domains
3. Efty Pay (5%)
4. Afternic/GoDaddy (Custom Checkout Link at 5%)
5. Sedo (3%)

We're in discussions with every company on the above list except Dynadot, since theirs is new and we haven't reached out yet. Please help us encourage these providers to add integration options by reaching out to them directly.

Of the providers that do support integration, which should we add first? These include:

1. Stripe
2. AtomPay
3. CryptoExchange.com

From prior feedback, it was split rather evenly between Stripe and AtomPay.

Let us know which payment method everyone would like us to add first.



Our goal is to integrate with as many providers as we can to provide sellers with the power of choice.

#empowered

AtomPay

 

[Dane]

That’ll be available as soon as we release the new design update.

Any ETA on that new design template?

Yes, that will be possible soon.

Any ETA on that bulk upload update?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

"All coming in due time. "

Do that mean closer towards 2025.

It's difficult to predict at the moment due to complications with adding support for imports, but it's reasonable to expect these new features in 2024.

Any ETA on that new design template?

Any ETA on that bulk upload update?

These will both be released around the same time because the import feature (the bulk upload update) is in front of everything else, which means that the new design can't be released until the import feature is released.

An ETA is difficult because the imports project is requiring us to rewrite large parts of our application, unexpectedly.

Our team is working around the clock, even on weekends, to get it done.

We hope to have an update very soon.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

It's difficult to predict at the moment due to complications with adding support for imports, but it's reasonable to expect these new features in 2024.


These will both be released around the same time because the import feature (the bulk upload update) is in front of everything else, which means that the new design can't be released until the import feature is released.

An ETA is difficult because the imports project is requiring us to rewrite large parts of our application, unexpectedly.

Our team is working around the clock, even on weekends, to get it done.

We hope to have an update very soon.

Would it be less complicated to redirect our portfolios to a new website dedicated and built to serve landers instead of (and I may be wrong here so correct me if so) modifying what is forum software to serve landers and create some sort of backend database to house the data served?

So like we click on https://www.namepros.com/parking/ but we're redirected to (just tossing this out there) www.nameproslanders.com where the code is entirely dedicated to running a portfolio sales lander service?

I am probably way off base, have no idea just how modifiable this software is but it may be less effort to build from ground up?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

instead of (and I may be wrong here so correct me if so) modifying what is forum software to serve landers and create some sort of backend database to house the data served?

You're correct that that would be the case if that was what we're doing. In fact, it'd be nearly impossible (and very cost prohibitive) for our forum software, XenForo, to serve landers at the scale we're doing it.

Fortunately, the bulk of our application lives outside of the forums in an entirely custom-built infrastructure using Docker, Go, Caddy, Redis, Elasticsearch, PHP, etc.

The only part of our lander service that is served through the forums is the control panel and dashboard, but that's a small part of the whole application.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

You're correct that that would be the case if that was what we're doing. In fact, it'd be nearly impossible (and very cost prohibitive) for our forum software, XenForo, to serve landers at the scale we're doing it.

Fortunately, the bulk of our application lives outside of the forums in an entirely custom-built infrastructure using Docker, Go, Caddy, Redis, Elasticsearch, PHP, etc.

The only part of our lander service that is served through the forums is the control panel and dashboard, but that's a small part of whole application.

Very cool! Thank you!

 

[Caleb Tweed]

@NameGroove recommended to them that they add an API so that third-party services like ours can integrate with them.

We recommend everyone who wants this feature to suggest it on their official Feature Requests page, which will increase the odds of them adding it sooner:

• https://www.dynadot.com/account/feedback/feature_requests/view.html

Once they have an API for it, yes, we’ll be happy to add it.

I'll pass it along to the team to see if we can work it!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Pro Tip if you want to see your domains in alphabetical order, until we add an option for it:

1. Get a full list of your domains, sorted in descending alphabetical order if you can. Registrars like Dynadot allow you to export this, sorted.
2. Use a tool to sort the list in descending alphabetical order if it’s not already sorted, such as: TextFixer.com (select the “Reverse” option)
3. Paste the alphabetized list into this page: https://www.namepros.com/parking/domains/add
4. Press "Add domains" (Note: All of your existing settings for each domain will be preserved and will not be changed by this.)
5. Your domains will now be sorted in ascending alphabetical order on the “Added” page: https://www.namepros.com/parking/domains

This works because the “Added” list of domains is sorted by their last added date.

This same strategy can be used for sorting in other ways if you first sort them in a spreadsheet (e.g., sort by price).

We hope this helps.


Cc @Molly

 

[Future Sensors]

Does NamePros Parking have any good Black Friday deals?