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!

 

[louddrums]

Whenever I've gotten a notice from reverb.com on an item that's on my watch list (I buy drums) that someone made an offer on it, I've sometimes moved fast to purchase at their full asking price to avoid losing to another buyer. I think doing the same thing for domains would really help make more sales.

Here's some example screenshots one from an app and the other from my email.

 

[louddrums]

The crazy thing that makes me jump after months of watching and pondering on an item on my watch list is you don't know what the offer from the other buyer is. Are they getting an incredible deal? What if my offer is lower than their offer? So I wind up too many times purchasing at their buy now price right then and there.

 

[TheBuyerz]

Something else for optimization:
The buyer will automatically receive an email from NamePros to request the price, so he can also add NamePros email to whitelist (you can ask the buyer to do it in the waiting message before confirmation) but not the seller's email, it's good to send another email to the buyer in order to add seller's email to whitelist as well after showing the price.

Or did you managed this in another way?

@Bravo Mod Team

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The buyer will automatically receive an email from NamePros to request the price, so he can also add NamePros email to whitelist (you can ask the buyer to do it in the waiting message before confirmation) but not the seller's email, it's good to send another email to the buyer in order to add seller's email to whitelist as well after showing the price.

Or did you managed this in another way?

In every email that we send to buyers*:

1. We include the seller's email address in the Reply-To field of the email.
2. We inform the buyer that they can reply to the email to contact the seller.

Both of these help to address your concern.
* After email verification and proper domain configuration.

In order for us to send emails from a seller's email address, it would require technical configuration by the seller to allow NamePros to do that (e.g., SPF and DKIM). That would likely be too complicated for a lot of sellers.

A better solution may be to have a feature that allows sellers to send an email from us to buyers, such as:

The seller is trying to reach you, but their email may not be arriving to you. Please send them an email and add their email address to your email's address book and allowlist: [email protected]

Would you like us to add that?

 

[TheBuyerz]

In every email that we send to buyers*:

1. We include the seller's email address in the Reply-To field of the email.
2. We inform the buyer that they can reply to the email to contact the seller.

Both of these help to address your concern.
* After email verification and proper domain configuration.

In order for us to send emails from a seller's email address, it would require technical configuration by the seller to allow NamePros to do that (e.g., SPF and DKIM). That would likely be too complicated for a lot of sellers.

A better solution may be to have a feature that allows sellers to send an email from us to buyers, such as:

​

Would you like us to add that?

Of course! That will be really comfortable for us and solve many communication issues between both parties.

 

[names2sell]

I would like to see:

1. ability to offer payment plans and/or ability to add custom payment buttons, for instance linking to squadhelp for payment plans
2. landers that use our domain instead of namepros.com
3. google analytics integration
4. ability to point to the lander via CNAME & A record, rather than nameservers, so we still have access to the rest of the dns for an outbound email if we want

But otherwise, this is a great option.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would like to see:

1. ability to offer payment plans and/or ability to add custom payment buttons, for instance linking to squadhelp for payment plans
2. landers that use our domain instead of namepros.com
3. google analytics integration
4. ability to point to the lander via CNAME & A record, rather than nameservers, so we still have access to the rest of the dns for an outbound email if we want

But otherwise, this is a great option.

Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions!

In order:

1. Coming very soon.
2. Added to our suggestions list.
3. Coming soon, most likely.
4. We have CNAME and TXT record verification. CNAME can be used on "www."

Are you looking for an "A" record to redirect the root of the domain name?

Let us know.

P.S. Most DNS providers offer the option to redirect the root ("@") to "www." CNAME flattening is another option at the root.

 

[names2sell]

Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions!

In order:

1. Coming soon.
2. Added to our suggestions list.
3. Coming soon, most likely.
4. We have CNAME and TXT record verification. CNAME can be used on "www."

Are you looking for an "A" record to redirect the root of the domain name?

Let us know.

P.S. Most DNS providers offer the option to redirect the root ("@") to "www." CNAME flattening is another option at the root.

Yes, redirect to the root, rather than use your nameservers. Then implement number two. So lander looks like mydomain.com. I guess you're not currently requiring pointing the nameservers, so it's only relevant if you were to implement number two.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

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.

This option is now available for NamePros Parking.

Escrow.com’s minimum fee is 10x more for concierge ($100 instead of $10), but that’s a small price to pay for peace of mind on a large domain sale. You can use either configuration option now.

Enjoy!

 

[Fayaz Ahmed]

It’s a great idea. However, it comes with a trade-off: less buyers will fill out the optional fields.

Both of these have pros and cons:

1. Show the required and optional fields together. The best opportunity to get buyers to fill out optional fields is when they’re already filling out required fields, thanks to inertia.
2. Show only the required fields and then later present the optional fields. Buyers won’t be as motivated to fill out the optional fields after they’ve successfully submitted a previous form. This approach doubles the amount of submissions that the buyer must make to provide optional details.

In other words, #2 slightly decreases the friction to provide their email address, but it doubles the friction to provide their name, company, phone, etc.

In the case of an unpriced domain, #2 doubles the friction for the buyer to submit an offer, or worse than doubles it.

We chose #1 with only two required fields, and we make it clear which two: name and email.

Our belief based on our experience and data is that #2 will result in slightly more low-quality leads at the expense of useful qualifying details about high-quality buyers with genuine interest in buying.

Therefore, #1 is the best driver of domain sales because high-quality data-rich leads are more valuable than low-quality data-thin leads.

We might do some A/B tests in the future to get more data on it.

Thanks for sharing your idea with us. It’s an idea that we strongly considered last year before building our landers.

Thanks a lot for the indepth response!

A/B testing is a great idea, but what's even better is the option to chose A or B on a per domain basis.

For example, let's say I have a domain (A) that receives a lot of query, and another one (B) that receives only a few queries every once in a while.

Ideally, for A I'd want the full form and for B I'd want the minmal form.
That way, I won't miss a single opportunity for B, but only get quality leads for A.

Too much work or worth considering?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

A/B testing is a great idea, but what's even better is the option to chose A or B on a per domain basis.

Well said. We have another lander option in the works that may accomplish this for B.

 

[Recons.Com]

imo, email, phone and name are the bare minimum and the golden standard that is used throughout the net... Pretty much anyone provides this data in the inquiries with zero problems.

 

[DNAAS]

This is fantastic. Any chance of a website dedicated to your domains like atom/squadhelp?

Then I can dump them like a hot potato

 

[cyrylhadam]

100% free for that big community sounds unrealistic

 

[DNAAS]

I meant the white label you can have for your own domains

 

[Future Sensors]

It's good to see so many features suggested to improve NamePros Parking. It is now a matter of prioritization. @Bravo Mod Team , I know you and your team are steadily coding for a better tomorrow. Can you give us an overview of 10 new features we can expect coming soon?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Any chance of a website dedicated to your domains like atom/squadhelp?

Yes, portfolio sites are coming after we finish payment plans.

I meant the white label you can have for your own domains

Features are being added to support this vision while focusing on solutions that can be provided for free, such as displaying your own brand more prominently instead of NamePros.

Give us a try!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It's good to see so many features suggested to improve NamePros Parking. It is now a matter of prioritization.

A lot of them are already done; we just haven’t had time to announce them.

We’ll try to dedicate some time to that soon.

Most of our time is currently being spent on development, including a helping hand from us moderators in QA testing.

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Bravo Mod Team, looking forward to new additions. Will sorting names be one coming down the road?

NOTE: I edited this post due to duplicate info

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Will sorting names be one coming down the road?

An update to the default sorting of domain names is coming soon, as follows:

• Parking dashboard - Domain names: Most recent confirmed inquiry.
• Domain names (full lists):
  • Added: Most recently added to your account.
  • Unverified: Most recently failed verification, ignoring subsequent/duplicate failures.
  • Verified: Most recently passed verification, ignoring subsequent/duplicate verifications.
  • Pending: Most recently seen as verified for your account, ignoring subsequent/duplicate sightings.

Do you think that’ll cover most use cases, or might you like to see additional sorting options?

Let us know.