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!

 

[OceanKing]

You don’t need to delete them first. You can just add them again with the capitalization that you want and select “Update preferred casing for existing domains” before pressing the “Add domains” button.

It worked . Thanks.

 

[OceanKing]

@Bravo Mod Team when pressing the 'see all domains' button, each domain ends up getting its own page.

With 123 domains listed, it shows me having 123 pages.

Yes, since yesterday i noticed this problem. if you have 50 domains there are 50 pages created in pagination.

 

[Paul]

Very expensive. They want to make it Paul so you never sleep.

Too late.

Yes, since yesterday i noticed this problem. if you have 50 domains there are 50 pages created in pagination.

Oops, I know why that is! Apologies; it'll be fixed momentarily.

Update: Fixed.

 

[Domain boy]

Well Escrow.com is I think reasonable for big transactions but I don't think reasonable enough for the consistent small transactions a Domainer needs to sell and reinvest. To rinse and repeat.

@Paul if an escrow is not possible at all, what about the possibility to sell a domain and get paid in NP account credit that you can use to buy better domains within the NamePros platform? That would allow also the ppl to stay within the NamePros ecosystem and make the ecosystem grow.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Escrow.com is I think reasonable for big transactions but I don't think reasonable enough for the consistent small transactions a Domainer needs to sell and reinvest. To rinse and repeat.

Generally, the only option is to handle the payment processing yourself (e.g., accept payment directly) if their fees are impractical. For example, Escrow.com's $10 minimum fee isn't practical for a $10 domain sale.

NamePros Parking has both (1) an option for you to handle the sale yourself through email (e.g., accept crypto directly), and (2) an option for the buyer to send their payment directly to your PayPal account.

The fees that providers charge are partially to offset their liability. The only way to avoid fees is to take on that liability directly, which is an option with our service.

 

[HotKey]

Not much more to add here until I put up some names myself for trial and error, but a phenomenal endeavor and rooting for this.

Hey looking forward perhaps a dedicated "domains sold" thread solely from NP landers.

 

[narek]

is it possible to integrate with some GDPR-compliant analytics tools? like Plausible or Umami.

It will be nice to be able to track how many times the domain landing has been visited.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It will be nice to be able to track how many times the domain landing has been visited.

This feature is coming soon.

Thanks for requesting it.

 

[Simpsonrocket]

This is a good innovation. But I just have one question. Won't bringing endusers down to namepros affect sellers. When they come here and see the same domain priced $2000 is being sold at wholesale for $30
I'd prefer namepros create another platform for that. This platform should be for domain investors. Just my humble thoughts.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Won't bringing endusers down to namepros affect sellers.

That’s a reasonable consideration in theory, but please see our previous post about actual outcomes in reality over the past year:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/namepros-parking-adds-buy-now-and-much-more.1324080/post-9151773

Here are some additional thoughts:

1. NamePros branding can be disabled on parked domains now. This greatly reduces the chance that an end user would ever visit NamePros, even if you’re using our landers.
2. Sellers should always remove listings from all forums and wholesale marketplaces after they’re finished offering them at liquidation pricing.
3. Whenever you’re liquidating a domain name, you should set the liquidation price (e.g., $30) on your for-sale landers, too. This will only increase your chances of being able to liquidate it.
4. Plus, thanks to how Buy Now prices work on NamePros Parking, no one will be able to see the price of your domain until they verify their email address.

We hope this helps.

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Paul, just wanted to let others know that early on, when the transition from 'interested' to 'available for purchase' was made, camel casing was lost.

Just pointing it out in case other users want to go back and re-check names.

btw, are we getting close to min offer capabilities? Sorry I keep asking but even if it weeks away, it would be helpful to have an idea of timing.

ADD: In the user panel the camel case still showed a mix of upper and lower. However, when visiting the landing page directly, all lower case letters are what showed.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

when the transition from 'interested' to 'available for purchase' was made, camel casing was lost.

Just pointing it out in case other users want to go back and re-check names.

We aren’t seeing this on our end. Could you send us a specific example?

are we getting close to min offer capabilities?

It’s in quality assurance. It should be available to everyone early this upcoming week, along with additional updates.

 

[Mister Funsky]

We aren’t seeing this on our end. Could you send us a specific example?

I just went though them all before I made my post and changed them. I might have skipped one or two that were lower case on purpose but that might not give any useful data.

Going through the dates and names I listed, I was able to determine a date cut off and if I recall I will look back but it coincided with the change I described. In my user panel, the camel case still showed correct (upper and lower mix). It was only after pulling the name up directly did I see that all letters were lower case when 'interested' still showed.

Great news about the min offer and other updates!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

In my user panel, the camel case still showed correct (upper and lower mix). It was only after pulling the name up directly did I see that all letters were lower case when 'interested' still showed.

The “Interested?” template is when a domain name is not associated with an account (e.g., not verified). Domains will always appear in lowercase with that template, even if they have settings for casing in one or more user accounts.

Once the domain is associated with your account, it will use the casing that you set in your account without you needing to do anything else. You don’t need to set the casing again in your account.

If you capitalize an “Interested” domain name, it should still appear entirely lowercase until it is associated with your account.

Does that describe what you observed?

 

[Mister Funsky]

Does that describe what you observed?

Well, I don't think so.

I've been pretty careful at adding and double checking names. I made sure they were all verified once I added them (there is only one not verified as I'm deciding on renewal).

I just went back and looked...now names that I did not update due to wanting to leave them lower case no longer have the 'interested'?!?

Is it possible that I happened to stuble onto all this during an update? No substance consumption over here today!!! If you want me to delete other postings I'll be happy to. I do not want to cause confusion.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The “Interested?” template is when a domain name is not associated with an account (e.g., not verified). Domains will always appear in lowercase with that template, even if they have settings for casing in one or more user accounts.

Once the domain is associated with your account, it will use the casing that you set in your account without you needing to do anything else. You don’t need to set the casing again in your account.

If you capitalize an “Interested” domain name, it should still appear entirely lowercase until it is associated with your account.

Does that describe what you observed?

Here’s an example: https://www.namepros.com/parked/namepros.com

You can add namepros.com to your account and attempt to change its casing.

It should change in your account but not on its landing page.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Here’s an example: https://www.namepros.com/parked/namepros.com

This is EXACTLY what the 20+ names looked like. I visited each name individually before re adding them. If you can look back in my user logs, you can see the names re added (about 3 sessions worth)

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

If you want me to delete other postings I'll be happy to. I do not want to cause confusion.

All good. These posts might help others if they stumble upon this, as well.

Moving forward, please let us know if you see anything that deviates from what we described. It could have been a temporary issue/delay.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I visited each name individually before re adding them.

Re-adding domains causes the system to immediately try to verify them again. It sounds like they might have not been verified yet (or temporarily lost verification) and then were (re)validated once you added them back. Update: See Pro Tip.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Pro tip:

You can still access inquiries (and email them to yourself) that arrived while your domain was (temporarily) not associated with your account (e.g., unverified) using the “Unsent” filter:

• https://www.namepros.com/parking/inquiries?delivery=unsent

There’s also an “Unverified” domain name page to keep track of any domains that need to be verified in your account:

• https://www.namepros.com/parking/domains?status=unverified

Those two pages provide peace of mind that you’ll never miss sales opportunities, even if your domain(s) temporarily lose verification, which shouldn’t happen anyway.

We hope that helps.