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!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

If you like watching bots...

Google Analytics (GA) does a decent job of excluding bots from its metrics, including realtime (human) visitors.

GA’s data is currently superior to everything else offered in the domain industry, until we release ours.

It would be nice if NamePros could add stats showing the number of actual (real) domain visitors.

That’s next on our list.

I'd also like to know if potential customers fill out their details but never send them.

Interesting idea! The challenge is storing that data without their agreement to our privacy policy, which happens when they press the button.

Would it be useful if we showed stats about how many people began to fill out the form but never submitted it? We could do that, but it wouldn’t include any details that they entered until they submit the form.

Let us know.

 

[Future Sensors]

Would it be useful if we showed stats about how many people began to fill out the form but never submitted it? We could do that, but it wouldn’t include any details that they entered until they submit the form.

I wonder if this would be "actionable information" from a practical POV.

Imo, don't put it too high on your priority list.

 

[NorthernDomains]

Google Analytics (GA) does a decent job of excluding bots from its metrics, including realtime (human) visitors.

GA’s data is currently superior to everything else offered in the domain industry, until we release ours.


That’s next on our list.


Interesting idea! The challenge is storing that data without their agreement to our privacy policy, which happens when they press the button.

Would it be useful if we showed stats about how many people began to fill out the form but never submitted it? We could do that, but it wouldn’t include any details that they entered until they submit the form.

Let us know.

This information is beneficial and crucial to determining the level of interest in a domain. Any action undertaken on the lander other than examining the page is a clear indication of the domain's appeal.

This information also comes in handy when renewal time comes around.

 

[alcy]

hmmm unless I'm blind and or stupid I'm quite sure I read by email some 2weeks back that google is retiring analytics very soon.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

hmmm unless I'm blind and or stupid I'm quite sure I read by email some 2weeks back that google is retiring analytics very soon.

Google retired Universal Analytics, which was the Google Analytics that everyone used before.

NamePros Parking uses their new product called Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which is not being retired.

We hope this helps.

 

[Future Sensors]

hmmm unless I'm blind and or stupid I'm quite sure I read by email some 2weeks back that google is retiring analytics very soon.

That was about UA (Universal Analytics). It has been replaced by GA4 (Google Analytics 4).

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13467533?hl=en

If you are starting from scratch with Google Analytics, then you don't have to worry about migration. NamePros Domain Name Parking works with the latest version, which is GA4. In your Settings area, you enter your GA4 Tag ID from Google Analytics.

 

[names2sell]

We plan to post those updates in the Help Guide thread.

Please subscribe to it to be notified: Watch NamePros Parking Updates.


Which GoDaddy payment link do you want added?

It's probably too soon to consider AtomPay until we've seen more community feedback on how well (or not well) it works.

Let us know

Is there any way to have the landing page show the domains url instead of namepros.com?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Is there any way to have the landing page show the domains url instead of namepros.com?

Not yet.

 

[alcy]

Not yet.

why

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

why

Only so many hours in a day, and we're working on other features first.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Greetings @Bravo Mod Team!

I've tried so hard to not bother you about upcoming updates but too much coffee today along with the requirement I sit up most of the time (recent procedure) makes me reach out.

I know you are working as fast as possible on updates, but I was wondering if you could update as to progress. Just got to 700 names listed.

1) The ability to add text/pitch to the landing page.
2) Visit counter system (other than adding goggle)

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Just got to 700 names listed.

Love, love, love this! Thank you!

1) The ability to add text/pitch to the landing page.
2) Visit counter system (other than adding goggle)

1. The good news about this one is that it wasn’t officially on our roadmap before, but now it’s one of our most requested features, so it is officially on the roadmap. The techies will have a meeting soon about exactly how it should work, so if you have any thoughts on that, please share them now before its development begins.

2. This has been slightly deprioritized because Google Analytics has been working so well, but it’s still something we will add soon because it’s part of another technical project that has to be completed regardless, involving upgrading our CAPTCHA technology on parking pages.

In short, the tech team is busy with other features at the moment, but both of these are very high on the list. #1 will probably come before #2, and it may be another month or two. But don’t be too surprised if it’s done much sooner. Development time can be rather unpredictable due to unforeseen challenges/hurdles (or lack thereof).

Thanks for letting us know these two are also high on your list.

 

[Future Sensors]

(re: custom domain descriptions)

1. The good news about this one is that it wasn’t officially on our roadmap before, but now it’s one of our most requested features, so it is officially on the roadmap. The techies will have a meeting soon about exactly how it should work, so if you have any thoughts on that, please share them now before its development begins.

Some thoughts, it's how DAN.com custom domain descriptions currently work as well:

1. Enable simple HTML tags like bold, italic, underline, and paragraph for custom domain descriptions
2. Make custom domain descriptions part of CSV upload/download (including simple HTML tags)

Also, consider offering some variables that Seller can use in custom descriptions, such as a variable for the full domain name, or a variable for the individual words detected in the domain name (based on breaking down the words recognized in the CamelCased domain, without TLD).

The broken down words from the domain name can also be used conveniently in the HTML title. Custom configuration options re: HTML title are also conceivable here, which may be fine-tuned by Seller.

 

[Mister Funsky]

please share them now before its development begins.

Thank you for the detailed response on both items.

Dan, by far, has the best example of landing pages I prefer. From a user standpoint, it is very simple to use (I cut and paste my 'pitch' and them customize it for each name) and they are super clean. The options I use the most are bold and camel case.

Length is important as well. Dynadot has nice landing pages and they have a character limit which is understandable. In my case, I use 3-4 paragraphs consisting of two to four sentences each.

Reluctantly I have to mention Epik and the checkbox options. The ability to toggle on/off certain items allows the domainer to keep the page clean or allow various items (chat form, payment methods, ratings, etc.)

The font/size offered by Dan is the most pleasing to my eye...may the force be with the techies!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

API for basic tasks like importing/exporting domains and pricing?

The ability to import/export domains and their settings (e.g., pricing) using a spreadsheet/CSV file is almost done.

Do you also want an API to do that?

 

[L3af]

is there a way to bulk upload a csv in dan/afternic format?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

is there a way to bulk upload a csv in dan/afternic format?

Could you send us example files in a direct message so we can make sure that we support it?

 

[dirk]

The ability to import/export domains and their settings (e.g., pricing) using a spreadsheet/CSV file is almost done.

Do you also want an API to do that?

Yes doesn't have to be all that advanced but it would be nice to pull and push listed domains with pricing so it's easier to integrate with my backend to automate things. I do the same with other sales venues atm but looking to drop them altogether.

Just thinking out loud.

Might not be much demand for it as I think a lot of people use spreadsheets.

 

[Skyvisum]

@Bravo Mod Team ,I have set a minium offer but buyers are able to bypass and offer lower .Hope this is looked into .

Thank you .

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I have set a minium offer but buyers are able to bypass and offer lower .Hope this is looked into

Our landers automatically reject their offer if it is below your minimum, and they’re informed that you will not be notified until they meet your minimum offer. This allows you to see what they’re offering without having to manually tell them that it is too low.

This strategy works very well; it helped @Bohdan sell a .io for $75,000 USD:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/th...-acquiring-it-using-namepros-parking.1328676/

We hope this helps.