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!

 

[Name Trader]

Your interpretation is correct. All members will use the same "ns1" nameserver, for all their domains. This in combination with the 2nd nameserver that has the long verification string, and is unique to your account. At your registrar, enter those two nameservers for all domains you want to park at NamePros, and you'll be good as gold.

OK. I understand. Is there any chance of that changing anytime soon, only being able to to use ns1 server, and not being able to use more servers, ns2+. As I see it. This could be used for any kind of analysis the domainer wants to use it for. Once we go into the thousands of domains, one homogenous mass of domains becomes more difficult to manage as a whole.

rgds
Name Trader - Stu

 

[Future Sensors]

OK. I understand. Is there any chance of that changing anytime soon, only being able to to use ns1 server, and not being able to use more servers, ns2+. As I see it. This could be used for any kind of analysis the domainer wants to use it for. Once we go into the thousands of domains, one homogenous mass of domains becomes more difficult to manage as a whole.

Thanks. Your comment contains a number of elements.

First of all, at least two nameservers will always be used. This is for technical redundancy reasons.

You then mention that you would rather not use the (2nd) nameserver that is unique to your account, because other domainers can then see which domains you have. I can comment on this, but I'm aware that there are still developments going on. Perhaps @Bravo Mod Team or @Paul can elaborate on this point, including the other verification options that already exist for domains using NamePros Parking.

Finally, your last point, which concerns not only NamePros Parking, but management of larger domain portfolios in general. You may be able to simplify domain management by using your registrar API, registrar templates, registrar bulk edit functionality, browser extensions such as Clippings, and other tools. I understand you already have a programmer, maybe they could help simplify the management of your domain portfolio for you.

 

[Mister Funsky]

the (2nd) nameserver that is unique to your account

Well, this is certainly giving me pause. I guess I assumed once the name was approved, this could be removed eventually. I hate it when I don't pay attention to all the details.

 

[Name Trader]

I'm not sure whether we are talking at cross purposes here but I think the I have identified the link which identifies the domain in not-NamePros terminology which will provide the link from internet lingo to NamePros lingo. If that made sense. But I think I won't need this now I'm only using the two servers provided by NamePros For the momemt. At least.

rgds
Name Trader - Stu

 

[Name Trader]

Thanks. Your comment contains a number of elements.

First of all, at least two nameservers will always be used. This is for technical redundancy reasons.

You then mention that you would rather not use the (2nd) nameserver that is unique to your account, because other domainers can then see which domains you have. I can comment on this, but I'm aware that there are still developments going on. Perhaps @Bravo Mod Team or @Paul can elaborate on this point, including the other verification options that already exist for domains using NamePros Parking.

Finally, your last point, which concerns not only NamePros Parking, but management of larger domain portfolios in general. You may be able to simplify domain management by using your registrar API, registrar templates, registrar bulk edit functionality, browser extensions such as Clippings, and other tools. I understand you already have a programmer, maybe they could help simplify the management of your domain portfolio for you.

Firstly. I was't asking to use the 2nd nameserver in any way you understood. I understand we need both nameservers provided to identify NamePros and ourselves to the system. I was asking about using a second set of nameservers, well in fact ns1, ns2, ns3, ns4 when I thought it might have been possibe to use those to as part of an indication system for my domain grouping by TLD Groups (or something else). But I suspect this idea might be not going very far apart from other stuff that might be on the horizon.

I'm appeciative of all comments which further my knowledge of how this is working. I'm not a programmer or a developer.

Name Trader - Stu

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

use separate ns1=For all COM domains, ns2=GTLD for all other GTLD domains, ns3=for all CCTLD domains, and ns4= for all NGTLD domains.

was asking about using a second set of nameservers, well in fact ns1, ns2, ns3, ns4 when I thought it might have been possibe to use those to as part of an indication system for my domain grouping by TLD Groups (or something else). But I suspect this idea might be not going very far apart from other stuff that might be on the horizon.

Thanks for explaining your idea.

You're looking to use nameserver filters within your registrar for categorization, right?

Does your registrar have folders or other categorization features for this purpose? For example, Dynadot has folders to categorize your domains, and Dynadot also has search options to filter by specific TLDs, among many other options.

That said, what you want is already possible with NamePros Parking, but it's probably not the best solution for what you're trying to do. However, if you still want to do that, you can, as you described.

Example:

• For your .com domains:
  1. ns1.namepros-dns.com
  2. random-verification-name-server.namepros-dns.is (replace this example with yours)
• For your ccTLD domains:
  1. ns2.namepros-dns.com
  2. random-verification-name-server.namepros-dns.is (replace this example with yours)
• Etc.

Notice that the second name server is always the same. That's the important part for verification.

We hope that helps.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Perhaps in your confirmation email you could remind the prospective buyer to check their spam folder in a day or two for the 'sellers' email.

This may carry some negative connotations/consequences with it. The buyer may wonder, "Why would the seller's email go to spam? Are they spammers? Should I be giving them my email? Should I be replying to them?"

Buyers typically don't understand the technical side of these things.

The following suggestion is probably a better solution to this problem:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/namepros-parking-adds-buy-now-and-much-more.1324080/post-9162901

That "Unreachable" button should be added soon.

 

[Mister Funsky]

This may carry some negative connotations/consequences with it. The buyer may wonder, "Why would the seller's email go to spam? Are they spammers? Should I be giving them my email? Should I be replying to them?"

Buyers typically don't understand the technical side of these things.

The following suggestion is probably a better solution to this problem:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/namepros-parking-adds-buy-now-and-much-more.1324080/post-9162901

That should be added soon.

Thanks for the link to prior post...I did not realize/remember they had our (sellers) email.

I will likely need to change the one you send to them as I typically send responses to inquires from everywhere from another email.

Yes, I agree...it would not be ideal to send the 'spam' note if they already have an email in hand.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

we all appreciate what you are doing
. . .
https://buymeacoffee.com/

This is a very kind consideration. Thank you!

The best ways to support this service are:

1. Park more domains with us. Please add as many domains as you can, and encourage others to do the same.
2. Contribute meaningful and helpful content to the forums.
3. Upgrade your NamePros account to Blue or Gold, and then you can cancel it immediately if you want it to be just a single payment, similar to buymeacoffee.com (Blue is $5 and Gold is $10).
4. Publicly report your sales from our landers.
5. Let us know how we can improve our service.
6. Let us know what you like about our service.

We appreciate any and all support.

Added more options.

 

[Name Trader]

Thanks for explaining your idea.

You're looking to use nameserver filters within your registrar for categorization, right?

Does your registrar not have folders or other categorization features for this purpose? For example, Dynadot has folders to categorize your domains, and Dynadot also has search options to filter by specific TLDs, among many other options.

That said, what you want is already possible with NamePros Parking, but it's probably not the best solution for what you're trying to do. However, if you still want to do that, you can, as you described.

Example:

• For your .com domains:
  1. ns1.namepros-dns.com
  2. random-verification-name-server.namepros-dns.is (replace this example with yours)
• For your ccTLD domains:
  1. ns2.namepros-dns.com
  2. random-verification-name-server.namepros-dns.is (replace this example with yours)
• Etc.

Notice that the second name server is always the same. That's the important part for verification.

We hope that helps.

I was informed this was not allowed and now you are telling me it IS allowed after I've just written an long apology to dynadot and to my programmer that we couldn't use ns2, ns3, ns4 servers. I think I leave it as only ns1 servers for the moment and move them manually to ns2, ns3, ns4 servers at a later date.

rgds
Name Trader - stu

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

You then mention that you would rather not use the (2nd) nameserver that is unique to your account, because other domainers can then see which domains you have. I can comment on this, but I'm aware that there are still developments going on. Perhaps @Bravo Mod Team or @Paul can elaborate on this point, including the other verification options that already exist for domains using NamePros Parking.

I guess I assumed once the name was approved, this could be removed eventually.

We plan to have an option for sellers/brokers to generate multiple unique verification nameservers for a single NamePros account.

Another option is to use a different verification method, such as CNAME or TXT records.

You could also create separate NamePros accounts if you want to fully separate certain domains.

We hope that helps.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I was informed this was not allowed and now you are telling me it IS allowed after I've just written an long apology to dynadot and to my programmer that we couldn't use ns2, ns3, ns4 servers. I think I leave it as only ns1 servers for the moment and move them manually to ns2, ns3, ns4 servers at a later date.

It’s undocumented functionality. Typically, it would not work at any other parking service, but given the way that ours is designed, it just so happens that it would work. But, a different solution would be better, so you’re on a better path now anyway.

 

[Name Trader]

Thanks for explaining your idea.

You're looking to use nameserver filters within your registrar for categorization, right?

Does your registrar not have folders or other categorization features for this purpose? For example, Dynadot has folders to categorize your domains, and Dynadot also has search options to filter by specific TLDs, among many other options.

That said, what you want is already possible with NamePros Parking, but it's probably not the best solution for what you're trying to do. However, if you still want to do that, you can, as you described.

Example:

• For your .com domains:
  1. ns1.namepros-dns.com
  2. random-verification-name-server.namepros-dns.is (replace this example with yours)
• For your ccTLD domains:
  1. ns2.namepros-dns.com
  2. random-verification-name-server.namepros-dns.is (replace this example with yours)
• Etc.

Notice that the second name server is always the same. That's the important part for verification.

We hope that helps.

It would have helped if I'd had this information about 1/2 day ago But I'll follow up you idea what Dynadot can do for me. Thank you.

Name Trader - Stu

 

[Name Trader]

Can I ask for a special case type. CAMELCASE. Which should be added to the domain name only. My registrar tells me it will reduce lowercase to DomainNames.Com case for every domain. Which I think is the best presentation for every domain. IMHO.

Name Trader - Stu

 

[Future Sensors]

Can I ask for a special case type. CAMELCASE. Which should be added to the domain name only. My registrar tells me it will reduce lowercase to DomainNames.Com case for every domain. Which I think is the best presentation for every domain. IMHO.

Hi @Name Trader

It's already possible to CamelCase your domains on NamePros Parking. Please note that you can only change the casing after you have successfully verified your domain.

If you still see a domain that's in lowercase, and want to change how it appears on your lander, do the following:

1. Go to https://www.namepros.com/parking/domains
2. Click on the domain name
3. Click on the light blue "Edit" button on top
4. Change this field: "Domain name case"
5. Don't forget to Save your settings

Let me know if you need further help. I will be here.

 

[Name Trader]

I don't see any mention of CamelCase. So you are saying I have to manually change every domains case to the ups and downs of Camelcase. Is tht correct? I cannot change every domain and every future domain into CamelCase automatically? That's way too much work for 1500 domains plus all new domains added. I was kind of expecting to find this as an option for everything.

 

[Future Sensors]

I don't see any mention of CamelCase. So you are saying I have to manually change every domains case to the ups and downs of Camelcase. Is tht correct? I cannot change every domain and every future domain into CamelCase automatically? That's way too much work for 1500 domains plus all new domains added. I was kind of expecting to find this as an option for everything.

You can easily enter/paste those 1,500 domains in bulk with the correct casing. The landers will show all lowercase until the domains have been verified successfully. After successful verification, you'll see the CamelCased presentation on the landers.

 

[Name Trader]

You can easily enter/paste those 1,500 domains in bulk with the correct casing. The landers will show all lowercase until the domains have been verified successfully. After successful verification, you'll see the CamelCased presentation on the landers.

That will help. But it's still a lot of work. One question I have. If I have both NS and a Template, I should always be editing the Template. Is that correct thinking?

I had rather imagined we would just specify CAMELCASE for everything

rgds
Stu

 

[Future Sensors]

That will help. But it's still a lot of work.

That largely depends on how you have set up your Master administration. I personally use an overview where all my domain names are already managed in CamelCase. This overview is independent of the registrars used, and is stored on my own systems. From there, I do exports to marketplaces. I recommend this for everyone. It provides a good overall overview of your domain assets, and if something goes wrong at a registrar/marketplace, you always have your own, complete overview of all your domain assets.

If I have both NS and a Template, I should always be editing the Template. Is that correct thinking?

Guess this needs some more clarification from your side. What do you mean with template in this context?

 

[Name Trader]

That largely depends on how you have set up your Master administration. I personally use an overview where all my domain names are already managed in CamelCase. This overview is independent of the used registrars, and is stored on my own systems. From there, I do exports to marketplaces. I recommend this for everyone. It provides a good overall overview of your domain assets, and if something goes wrong at a registrar/marketplace, you always have your own, complete overview of all your domain assets.


Guess this needs some more clarification from your side. What do you mean with template in this context?

Could you please recommend where I go to get such a system for CAMELCASE. Or is it just a spreadheet of domain names?

It was recommended that we build a template which is a mirror image of the nameserver when I got involved with this project. So I did just that, because it was recommended. So now I need to know whether I should use that or not for updating new domains and whatever else it might be used for,

rgds
Stu