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!

 

[SpareDomains]

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.

I tested a 50k buy it now with a 25k minimum offer domain and received the following 2 emails after submitting a $5 offer...

"Your offer has been declined because it is less than the minimum amount required by the seller to begin negotiations. An increased offer is needed in order to start the conversation of selling this domain name.
You may reply to this message to contact the seller."

"The seller will not be notified about your interest in this domain name based on this submission.
You may reply to this message to contact the seller."

So my debate is do I want my email address sent to every lowball offer or should you only send it to buyers that meet the minimum offer? Minimum offer is set to avoid lowball offers, handing out my email address to them all will probably end up with a bunch of $50, $100, $1000 email offers when my minimum is set at 25k on this 50k domain.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Minimum offer is set to avoid lowball offers, handing out my email address to them all will probably end up with a bunch of $50, $100, $1000 email offers when my minimum is set at 25k on this 50k domain.

Do you think we should just remove the "You may reply to this message to contact the seller" message from emails when the minimum offer hasn't been met yet?

That would avoid this from happening in the majority of causes because most buyers only see "[email protected]" in the "From:" field and don't realize that your email address is hidden in the email's headers under the "Reply-To:" header.

Let's start with this and see if it's ever an issue after that?

 

[Future Sensors]

Do you think we should just remove the "You may reply to this message to contact the seller" message from emails when the minimum offer hasn't been met yet?

The most charming solution is to include a direct link to the lander in the text, with the request to place a higher bid there.

 

[Future Sensors]

In that scenario, does the email address have to be confirmed again, or can it be remembered in some way or made unnecessary via a modified/custom link?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

In that scenario, does the email address have to be confirmed again, or can it be remembered in some way or made unnecessary via a modified/custom link?

The email address does not need to be confirmed again when increasing an offer or making a purchase.

The most charming solution is to include a direct link to the lander in the text, with the request to make a higher bid there.

An "Increase your offer" button will be added soon if it hasn't already been.

 

[SpareDomains]

Do you think we should just remove the "You may reply to this message to contact the seller" message from emails when the minimum offer hasn't been met yet?

That would avoid this from happening in the majority of causes because most buyers only see "[email protected]" in the "From:" field and don't realize that your email address is hidden in the email's headers under the "Reply-To:" header.

Let's start with this and see if it's ever an issue after that?

Or modifying the text to pull the minimum offer setting from the domain name...

"Your offer has been declined because it is less than the minimum amount required by the seller to begin negotiations. An increased offer is needed in order to start the conversation of selling this domain name.
You may reply to this message to contact the seller."

"The seller will not be notified about your interest in this domain name based on this submission.
You may reply to this message to contact the seller."

to...

"Your offer has been declined because it is less than the minimum amount required by the seller to begin negotiations. An increased offer is needed in order to start the conversation of selling this domain name.
The current minimum offer to begin negotiations is (Insert variable here)"

"The seller will not be notified about your interest in this domain name based on this submission.
The current minimum offer to begin negotiations is (Insert variable here)"

Alternatively I can create an email alias and just use a forwarder strictly for these pages to gauge if sending every offer your email address results in a ton of lowball offers or viagra spam.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Alternatively I can create an email alias and just use a forwarder strictly for these pages to gauge if sending every offer your email address results in a ton of lowball offers or viagra spam.

For what it's worth, we've spoken to sellers receiving thousands of inquiries from our landers, and they haven't experienced either of these issues. We still recommend using an alias or dedicated email address for this service so you can track everything easily.

 

[SpareDomains]

For what it's worth, we've spoken to sellers receiving thousands of inquiries from our landers, and they haven't experienced either of these issues. We still recommend using an alias or dedicated email address for this service so you can track everything easily.

Testing the landers now with an Alias forwarder.

I know you're recommending sending leads to email and managing them there but I'd still like to see a way to delete all the email test inquiries I've done from showing in my namepros account or possible lowball offers that may arrive as well.

I have a good domain I'd let ya use as your example page to show instead of the ninja one but without being able to delete all the test inquiries that would arrive I don't want 10+ test inquiries in my namepros account daily without being able to delete them.

 

[Future Sensors]

I have a good domain I'd let ya use as your example page to show instead of the ninja one

You can make a sales listing in the marketplace section for the promotion of your domain.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I know you're recommending sending leads to email and managing them there but I'd still like to see a way to delete all the email test inquiries I've done from showing in my namepros account or possible lowball offers that may arrive as well.

Fortunately, we already need a way for you to be able to mark certain inquiries as ignored for the statistics that we’re adding to the dashboard, so it’ll probably be part of that.

Either as a “hide” or “ignore” option.

I have a good domain I'd let ya use as your example page to show instead of the ninja one but without being able to delete all the test inquiries that would arrive I don't want 10+ test inquiries in my namepros account daily without being able to delete them.

We’ll have proper demos soon using “Example.com” or similar. Then our CTO’s inbox won’t be flooded with test inquiries, either.

Thank you for the offer, though!

 

[Mister Funsky]

Just made it to 900 names listed on NPs landers...woohoo!

Anxiously awaiting ability to add description/pitch.

 

[Future Sensors]

Just made it to 900 names listed on NPs landers...woohoo!

Anxiously awaiting ability to add description/pitch.

Excellent. Are there any specific issues you encountered during the listing and setup process that are worth mentioning?

 

[Mister Funsky]

Excellent. Are there any specific issues you encountered during the listing and setup process that are worth mentioning?

Not really,

Adding a name(s) is a simple process and the system adds them quickly.

The only thing I would suggest to someone getting started using the landers (or even someone actively using them) is to have a dedicated email just for the Namepros leads/sales.

An interesting side note to this new option for listing names is how the other marketplaces are reacting making little updates and tweaks. Much of it is too little too late.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Just made it to 900 names listed on NPs landers...woohoo!

Thank you! Super excited for a clean 1,000 soon!

Anxiously awaiting ability to add description/pitch.

In celebration of you reaching 900 domains listed, we've put in a request to expedite this feature.

An interesting side note to this new option for listing names is how the other marketplaces are reacting making little updates and tweaks.

We've noticed that, too. It's been interesting.

. . . other marketplaces are reacting making little updates and tweaks. Much of it is too little too late.

Agreed; we're in this together!

 

[korganian]

I now have 1,151 domains listed.

Any chance you can negotiate a good deal for us to offer a simple website builder option right on the parked page, so that someone with a small budget just starting out can just pay a small monthly fee to have a website on our domain. We can also offer to simply forward the domain if they have an existing website.

We seriously need other ways to monetize our names.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Any chance you can negotiate a good deal for us to offer a simple website builder option right on the parked page, so that someone with a small budget just starting out can just pay a small monthly fee to have a website on our domain. We can also offer to simply forward the domain if they have an existing website.

Most registrars offer free domain forwarding, but we may also add some free DNS management options (e.g., domain forwarding) as part of other planned features.

Wix and Dynadot have simple website builders that are free.

Once we add a custom text option, you could add a note to your landers that you'll help buyers configure the domain upon purchase (e.g., set up forwarding or show them how to configure Wix on the domain). That wouldn't take much time and could help increase your sell-through rate.

We have some other ideas that might help in the future, too.

Stay tuned.

 

[korganian]

Most registrars offer free domain forwarding, but we may also add some free DNS management options (e.g., domain forwarding) as part of other planned features.

Wix and Dynadot have simple website builders that are free.

Once we add a custom text option, you could add a note to your landers that you'll help buyers configure the domain upon purchase (e.g., set up forwarding or show them how to configure Wix on the domain). That wouldn't take much time and could help increase your sell-through rate.

We have some other ideas that might help in the future, too.

Stay tuned.

Wix.com shows their lowest priced website builder cost $17 per month. Dynadot is only for domains at Dynadot and their free website builder is too bare bones for a business site.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Wix.com shows their lowest priced website builder cost $17 per month.

https://support.wix.com/en/article/building-a-website-for-free

 

[Future Sensors]

https://support.wix.com/en/article/building-a-website-for-free

They're not mentioning NPP, yet

 

[korganian]

https://support.wix.com/en/article/building-a-website-for-free

Wix offers a free plan that allows users to create and use websites without upfront costs. The free plan includes a website builder with user-friendly tools and features, but it's limited to Wix-branded subdomains and lacks some advanced features. For example, the free plan doesn't allow users to accept online payments or use a custom domain.