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!

 

[Paul]

I downloaded the Xenforo default font and replaced the existing font. It was bold before and now it's regular style but It didn't fix the domain being cut off.
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What are you using to replace the font? It should work with any font as long as the font doesn't change after the page loads. Is there some sort of extension you're using to change the font after the page loads?

 

[silentg]

I bulk installed the fonts before and accidentally replaced the Helvetica font with a bold one. no extensions enabled on Namepros.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I have been here a long time I can say I have had two interactions where an end user who had no idea there was a domaining community came across the forum.

Those are great examples that emphasize the importance of removing old, inactive domain listings from NamePros Marketplace. Thanks for sharing.

We also discussed this concern in a previous post.

Can you say what brokerage is having the success with the landers?

We just asked them if they mind us sharing that publicly. It should be fine, but we’ll let you know once we get confirmation.

 

[Paul]

I bulk installed the fonts before and accidentally replaced the Helvetica font with a bold one. no extensions enabled on Namepros.

If you manually overwrite the default font files on your computer, it's probably going to break a variety of apps and websites. It sounds like there's still something amiss there, and it's unlikely to be something that we can resolve on our end. That's a bit of an unusual case that I doubt we can accommodate. Most people rely on apps to install fonts--or, if they're manually downloading them, they simply add new fonts without overwriting any existing fonts.

 

[Paul]

I downloaded the Xenforo default font and replaced the existing font.

Also, note that the landing pages don't use XenForo. They should work with whatever fonts are on your device--as long as they're not corrupt. It's up to your browser to report the correct information about how it's rendered the text. macOS doesn't expect you to replace or rename fonts or otherwise tinker with how it renders text; it only expects you to add new fonts.

I've tried tinkering with the settings on my MacBook Air to reproduce the issue, but I'm unable to do so, which leads me to believe something somewhere is corrupt on your OS.

 

[silentg]

Thanks Paul, I'll dig deeper and see if I can reset the fonts and restore it.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

it is a great service you are offering for free. Can you say what brokerage is having the success with the landers?

We’ve received confirmation from Grit Brokerage that we can share that they’re successfully using our for-sale landers on many of their clients’ domains.

Their firm is a Top 10 Escrow.com Sales Closer, and they’ve been very helpful in providing us with feedback on NamePros Parking over the past year.

 

[rh2000]

Are you requesting a make offer option shown alongside the buy now option on the same parked page?

Let us know.

Yes. I like when the landing page is setup like this. Let me know if you can do this.

 

[werty]

I am very interested in using these but concerned with the namepros advertising as well. I would prefer to pay a small reasonable monthly fee and get the branding removed.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Yes. I like when the landing page is setup like this. Let me know if you can do this.

Yes, we’re going to add a place to enter an offer below the Buy button after they’ve confirmed their email address. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would prefer to pay a small reasonable monthly fee and get the branding removed.

You’re a VIP, so you can remove it for free. That option is already available.

 

[werty]

You’re a VIP, so you can remove it for free. That option is already available.

Wow, thanks! Making the switch very soon!

 

[equity78]

We’ve received confirmation from Grit Brokerage that we can share that they’re successfully using our for-sale landers on many of their clients’ domains.

Their firm is a Top 10 Escrow.com Deal Closer, and they’ve been very helpful in providing us with feedback on NamePros Parking over the past year.

Thank you that was who I thought was using them, nice to see brokers using the landers.

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Bravo Mod Team, so far I've added 30+ names coming from different registrars.

Each add was simple from the registrar standpoint (changing nameservers) and each one shows up verified and in my account at Namepros within 1 Minute...very impressive.

I've got a couple of questions.

1) Do we have a rough ETA on the minimum offer option? I'm anxious to add a couple of my higher value names that get lots of traffic, but I don't want to get a herd of tire kickers.

2) I'm having trouble finding a way to put a price on a couple of the names that I've determined a fixed price. Once a sale is made, I either use my own card processor or the Godaddy link option (I've never used Escrow.com). Do we have to use the Escrow option or paypal to get the option to enter a price?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

1) Do we have a rough ETA on the minimum offer option? I'm anxious to add a couple of my higher value names that get lots of traffic, but I don't want to get a herd of tire kickers.

Within a few days, depending on how it goes.

2) I'm having trouble finding a way to put a price on a couple of the names that I've determined a fixed price. Once a sale is made, I either use my own card processor or the Godaddy link option (I've never used Escrow.com). Do we have to use the Escrow option or paypal to get the option to enter a price?

Price is under the "Edit" button and also the drop-down menu when selecting multiple domains (i.e., bulk edit).

You can select "Email" as the payment method. You don't have to enable Escrow.com or PayPal.

Email will allow you to coordinate with the buyer to use your own payment processor, GoDaddy, crypto, etc.

P.S. The additional IP address information that you requested should be ready soon, as well.

 

[Croc]

Does the Escrow.com integration use the optional "concierge" option? If not, can you make this configurable? I wouldn't use Escrow.com without the concierge option enabled as it's much safer.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I wouldn't use Escrow.com without the concierge option enabled as it's much safer.

With and without it enabled, Escrow.com is very safe, protecting both the buyer and the seller.

Does the Escrow.com integration use the optional "concierge" option?

Not yet.

If not, can you make this configurable?

Yes, it looks like adding an option to enable Domain Concierge Service would be very quick:

 "extra_attributes": {
               // this can be set to true if a seller wishes to avail Escrow.com’s Domain Concierge Service. Otherwise, this could be defaulted to false.
               "concierge": false
}

Thanks for this suggestion.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Price is under the "Edit" button and also the drop-down menu when selecting multiple domains (i.e., bulk edit).

I hate to share my mistakes with the world but...

When entering my email when getting started I did not use a separate one so the buttons did not appear until I added a separate email a short while ago (it was there in the instructions all the time but I did not give it the attention it deserved).

ADD: more questions, not a big deal at all but will a 'hit counter' and 'sort names' options ever be added? Of the two, being able to sort would be the most preferred.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

will a 'hit counter' and 'sort names' options ever be added?

Yes.

Of the two, being able to sort would be the most preferred.

What would you like to sort by?

 

[Mister Funsky]

What would you like to sort by?

In order of preference: Alphabetical, offer/inquiry date, extension, reg date, expire date, date added