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]

It has been 6 hours since I created the tag and I confirmed right away that my tag is accurately shown on all of my domain landing pages.

Iv'e made visits myself and I know these names have high traffic so there should have been something by now - no?

Am I being impatient? This is the message I see:

That message is part of the historical stats:

Note: Historical reports usually display within 24-48 hours, but real-time reporting should work immediately

 

[Future Sensors]

AtomPay

Note that 'AtomPay' is a confusing term.

While you most probably mean this, there's also this, this, and this.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

BTW, I have performed a "test" on a specific domain landing page, which is verified at NP parking since end of June, and I definitely see the tag. but get this message:

Do you want to DM us all the details for a second pair of eyes?

Might be a bad tag ID (e.g., missing a number).

 

[Domain boy]

Is there a minimum selling amount to integrate with AtomPay or can use use AtomPay also for transactions that are less than $300?

 

[Optimal Names]

That indicates an issue.

Do you want to DM us all the details for a second pair of eyes?

Might be a bad tag ID (e.g., missing a number).

This is so odd... As of this morning there is indications that the analytics is receiving traffic on one of the GA account pages however I still get that error highlighted in yellow, above, when I press Test. I will DM some screen shots of specific details so you can verify internally.

 

[NorthernDomains]

I'm thinking outside of the box here.

Would it make sense to categorically reject throw-away email (Gmail) inquiries? A good percentage of emails received are from fake or disposable email accounts.

In the end, most inquiries want your email address to spam you. By replying to them, you effectively divulge your contact information to them.

How about implementing a canned response from the contact form? I'd like to hear from others on ways to weed out spammers.

 

[Optimal Names]

I'm thinking outside of the box here.

Would it make sense to categorically reject throw-away email (Gmail) inquiries? A good percentage of emails received are from fake or disposable email accounts.

In the end, most inquiries want your email address to spam you. By replying to them, you effectively divulge your contact information to them.

How about implementing a canned response from the contact form? I'd like to hear from others on ways to weed out spammers.

I like that idea too.

I recently received 4 emails for one domain, 3 from a gmail acct and the other from hotmail. The BIN was from a gmail. I cant find any evidence of such an email address anywhere, same with the others.

I'd like to see a couple of other verifications...

- telephone: I dont even think telephone is really necessary anyway. Once the negotiations gain traction then perhaps an exchange of telephone numbers may occur. In my 20+ years selling domains I've never once spoken to a buyer.

- ipaddress: Would love to see most of the VPN IP addresseses automatically blocked, probably a hard thing to do but that would definitely help too. Too easy to hide behind one of those VPN / hidden proxy IPs, use a throwaway email address, a poorly formatted phone #, which is what the one (out of 4 emails) had on it,

Its been 3 weeks since my first inquiry and no one is replying and I've stopped chasing because I really believe that I am chasing my tail. I think it was exactly the scenario from above (proxy IP / fake email / bad phone #) and they got not only a BIN but a confirmation of my email address and all that comes with that email back to them. :/

 

[Future Sensors]

Would it make sense to categorically reject throw-away email (Gmail) inquiries? A good percentage of emails received are from fake or disposable email accounts.

This may be challenging. Entrepreneurs still often use unattractive email addresses for both personal and professional purposes. Therefore, acquiring a new and appealing domain could be an excellent idea.

Gmail in particular is widely used in both private and professional contexts. It's important not to dismiss emails from Gmail users, as doing so could result in missing important leads.

Some stealth brokers prefer not to immediately disclose that they are trading on behalf of a large client, as this can lead to an increase in price. They're sometimes using ugly email addresses on purpose.

Furthermore, it is increasingly difficult for small businesses to manage their own email servers. These servers often lack the reliability and trustworthiness of larger (cloud) providers such as Microsoft and Google. As a result, there is a growing trend towards using dedicated cloud services from these major providers. However, businesses still have the option to configure their own domain name or use @gmail.com.

 

[Future Sensors]

To give an example, I sold a number of infrastructure domains to the company Verisign. And even though I knew I was doing business with this company, the entire transaction was handled through a private free email address at nycny.net. Even up to the Escrow.com transaction. You can't really filter on that.

It was used by CSC Corporate Domains.

 

[NorthernDomains]

This may be challenging. Entrepreneurs still often use unattractive email addresses for both personal and professional purposes. Therefore, acquiring a new and appealing domain could be an excellent idea.

Gmail in particular is widely used in both private and professional contexts. It's important not to dismiss emails from Gmail users, as doing so could result in missing important leads.

Some brokers prefer not to immediately disclose that they are trading on behalf of a large client, as this can lead to an increase in price. They're sometimes using ugly email addresses on purpose.

Furthermore, it is increasingly difficult for small businesses to manage their own email servers. These servers often lack the reliability and trustworthiness of larger (cloud) providers such as Microsoft and Google. As a result, there is a growing trend towards using dedicated cloud services from these major providers. However, businesses still have the option to configure their own domain name or use @gmail.com.

Domainers also have the option to individually dismiss inquiries from Gmail/Hotmail. They always have the option to follow their own best practices.

A funny anecdote: I successfully used this method many years ago. I would reply by mentioning that we didn't do sales with individuals and that business emails were required. It worked sometimes, but it was not a guarantee of a successful sale. The downside was it required more work and monitoring.

 

[alcy]

Just want to take this moment to thank the team for setting up a free lander for members.It would help save us from the crazy commission out there .Smart acquisitions will definitely bring in the leads as long as we put in the work,offers will come in.

Got a serious inbound of almost mid 4 figures. I expect a positive result at the end .I am patient and maybe when next you see a reported sales from me.,it would be the inbound lead


@Bravo Mod Team ,make sure you don't get tempted by GD to sell this platform because, I know they have their people observing as things unfold here .

This is an appreciation post for using your lander and I can get to see my leads and not leave to a platform that have stalled and ruined countless sales .

Wishing you all successful inbound leads sales and to enjoy your investment without paying too much commission out there .

it doesn't work that way. nobody resists if enuff cash is on table.

 

[OceanKing]

Google analytics seems not that accurate. Even the Realtime visitors map do not show our own visits. Visitor counts are exaggerated when compare to afternic stats.

i heard https://clarity.microsoft.com/ also doing well. What if you provide an option to add this analytics.
Or else having NP owned stats (i think work in progress)?

 

[RapidNames.com]

Dan is shutting down, but we plan to add additional checkout/payment methods, such as AtomPay and Efty Pay.

What do you like most about Dan's "import lead" instead of using Escrow.com for less? The checkout process is immediate with our Escrow.com integration.

Your feedback will help us prioritize.


This thread is the best place for now.

Make an option to choose the platform by buyers. Best options are Escrow.com & Afternic.com (redirect to buy it now page). Atom pay also getting popular now but still more people not aware of these platform.

Crypto is getting hot everyday. Adding CryptoExchange.com / any crypto payment option makes more trendy and useful for buyers to proceed.

 

[Optimal Names]

Google analytics seems not that accurate. Even the Realtime visitors map do not show our own visits. Visitor counts are exaggerated when compare to afternic stats.

i heard https://clarity.microsoft.com/ also doing well. What if you provide an option to add this analytics.
Or else having NP owned stats (i think work in progress)?

I was going to say the same thing - no realitme visits show. I was thinking it was because my account is new (27-Jul) and it needed time to gel. It stills says "check back for insights" so I figured I'd wait.

 

[Optimal Names]

Make an option to choose the platform by buyers. Best options are Escrow.com & Afternic.com (redirect to buy it now page). Atom pay also getting popular now but still more people not aware of these platform.

Crypto is getting hot everyday. Adding CryptoExchange.com / any crypto payment option makes more trendy and useful for buyers to proceed.

I like the ability of the buyer to choose the payment processor that will handle their payment, it would make them feel more comfortable. Anything to help grease the skid.

 

[Optimal Names]

This may be challenging. Entrepreneurs still often use unattractive email addresses for both personal and professional purposes. Therefore, acquiring a new and appealing domain could be an excellent idea.

Gmail in particular is widely used in both private and professional contexts. It's important not to dismiss emails from Gmail users, as doing so could result in missing important leads.

Some stealth brokers prefer not to immediately disclose that they are trading on behalf of a large client, as this can lead to an increase in price. They're sometimes using ugly email addresses on purpose.

Furthermore, it is increasingly difficult for small businesses to manage their own email servers. These servers often lack the reliability and trustworthiness of larger (cloud) providers such as Microsoft and Google. As a result, there is a growing trend towards using dedicated cloud services from these major providers. However, businesses still have the option to configure their own domain name or use @gmail.com.

Having thought about this, I agree with what you're pointing out.

 

[Optimal Names]

Note: Historical reports usually display within 24-48 hours, but real-time reporting should work immediately

Just an FYI, the realtime stats still does not show for my account. I created the tag on 27-JULY so it should definitely be working by now. I wasnt going to mention it but I see another has mentioned the same thing happening.

 

[Future Sensors]

The number of domains using the free NamePros Domain Selling and Monetization program is steadily increasing.

 

[Future Sensors]

i heard https://clarity.microsoft.com/ also doing well.

Looks fantastic. Perhaps also somewhat easier to use. I have no experience with it myself, yet.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Would it make sense to categorically reject throw-away email (Gmail) inquiries? A good percentage of emails received are from fake or disposable email accounts.

We should be able to add an option like this as part of another feature we'll be adding soon.

- ipaddress: Would love to see most of the VPN IP addresseses automatically blocked, probably a hard thing to do but that would definitely help too. Too easy to hide behind one of those VPN / hidden proxy IPs

We already built this technology for the forums, but we intentionally don't use it on our landers so that sellers can decide if they want to ignore these leads.

I'd like to see a couple of other verifications...

- telephone: I dont even think telephone is really necessary anyway. Once the negotiations gain traction then perhaps an exchange of telephone numbers may occur. In my 20+ years selling domains I've never once spoken to a buyer.

You said that you'd like to see a telephone verification, but then you said that you don't think telephone is necessary.

What do you mean?

I think it was exactly the scenario from above (proxy IP / fake email / bad phone #) and they got not only a BIN but a confirmation of my email address and all that comes with that email back to them. :/

For what it's worth: https://www.namepros.com/threads/1324080/post-9211158

Google analytics seems not that accurate . . . Visitor counts are exaggerated when compare to afternic stats.

We'd trust Google Analytics statistics over Afternic statistics. Google's technology is cutting edge. Afternic's technology is archaic.

i heard https://clarity.microsoft.com/ also doing well. What if you provide an option to add this analytics.
Or else having NP owned stats (i think work in progress)?

We'll definitely look into Microsoft's. Thanks for sharing it.

Yes, we're developing our own simple stats, too.

Make an option to choose the platform by buyers.

I like the ability of the buyer to choose the payment processor that will handle their payment, it would make them feel more comfortable. Anything to help grease the skid.

Buyers are presented with all of the payment methods that sellers enable.

Then buyers get to choose the one they want.

I was going to say the same thing - no realitme visits show. I was thinking it was because my account is new (27-Jul) and it needed time to gel. It stills says "check back for insights" so I figured I'd wait.

Thanks for updating us in our DM that you're seeing realtime stats now.

Google analytics seems not that accurate. Even the Realtime visitors map do not show our own visits.

Thanks for sharing additional details in our DM; it appears to be working for you as expected.

Edited to update statuses.