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]

Tip: If you aren't seeing real-time statistics in Google Analytics when you visit your domains, try again without using a VPN, Apple's iCloud Private Relay, or public Wi-Fi. It's possible that they may filter out Google Analytics or that Google may disregard that traffic under certain circumstances.

Edited to add additional possibilities.

 

[Future Sensors]

Tip: If you aren't seeing real-time statistics in Google Analytics when you visit your domains, try again without using a VPN, Apple's iCloud Private Relay, or a public Wi-Fi spot. It's possible that Google may disregard those under certain circumstances.

Good tips. I'd add that some privacy-focused browsers and ad blockers prevent trackers from collecting visitor's data. Some tools may entirely block the Google Tag manager script.

 

[Optimal Names]

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 guess what I meant was that there should be some sort of telephone verification but for myself its never been something I've used during negotiations so it doesnt matter (for me). Phone verficiation could be as simple as a formatting check (ie: country code 01 must have 10 digits) or as sophisticated as sending a verification code to a phone in order to get the BIN price from our listings. I am aware that there are services where you can obtain a throw away phone number to receive verification codes so all of that would have to be weighed. However, its an interesting concept that I do not believe any other marketplace has. Correct me if I am wrong, though.

Ultimately, with all of these requests it would really cool to be able to toggle them on/off depending on the seller's desires which could change. So if a seller would like to block IPs as you do for the main forum then it would be good to be able to choose that - turn it on/off at will. Same for email, phone, etc. I agree with others that it is more restrictive but it would also allow customization and the abililty to conduct A/B testing, too.

All in all, thanks for the reply and for the marketplace!

 

[OceanKing]

I personally feel that BIN prices must be visible by default without the need for signup and email verification to see it. I have not seen a platform that hides the price until you signup and verify the email. Coz many signups will ended up not buying after seeing the prices.

 

[RapidNames.com]

have not seen a platform that hides the price until you signup and verify the email

Afternice price request lander works that way, but yes i agree with your point. Price must be visible to buyer while landing to decide much faster.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I personally feel that BIN prices must be visible by default without the need for signup and email verification to see it. I have not seen a platform that hides the price until you signup and verify the email. Coz many signups will ended up not buying after seeing the prices.

Afternice price request lander works that way, but yes i agree with your point. Price must be visible to buyer while landing to decide much faster.

We're looking into adding this because it can make sense if the domain name is priced very low (less than $100). For anything above that, we strongly recommend against this approach on every platform.

From another thread:

Our current approach is much better because there's zero chance that any serious end-user buyer is going to be blocked by providing their email address. That does not happen. In fact, buyers are far more likely to enter their email address to find out the price than after they already have the price.

 

[Future Sensors]

We're looking into adding this because it can make sense if the domain name is priced very low (less than $100). For anything above that, we strongly recommend against this approach.

Is there any specific reason why easy "impulse" hassle-free Click & BIN landers up to —say— USD 5,000 wouldn't work for NamePros Parking, while they work very well on many other major marketplaces, and in registrar registration paths?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Is there any specific reason why easy "impulse" hassle-free Click & BIN landers up to -- say -- USD 5,000 wouldn't work for NamePros Parking, while they work very well on many other major marketplaces, and in registrar registration paths?

This doesn't affect impulse purchases because buyers always have to enter and confirm an email address to purchase an ICANN-regulated domain name, at some point in their buying journey. That's true on every platform, registrar, marketplace, etc.

We're discussing when buyers need to enter and confirm their email address: before or after they see the price.

• If "after they see the price," then sellers won't usually get the buyer's email address, unless the buyer is ready to purchase at the listed price.
• If "before they see the price," then sellers will usually get the buyer's email address, even if the buyer doesn't purchase immediately.

The latter affords sellers an opportunity to educate buyers about the price, find payment terms that make it palatable, liquidate to previously-interested buyers in the future, etc.

It's just better in every way for domains that cost as much as vehicles.

From the first post:

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!

 

[Mister Funsky]

We're looking into adding this because it can make sense if the domain name is priced very low

Agreed...I would like to have it available it for names I know I am not going to renew or I feel are worth 299 or less.

I'm thankful to someone that many years ago convinced me to not price higher value names (unless tossing out unicorn pricing). Had I not followed his advice, I would have bombed in the domain game. Today I'd be squinting to look at somewhat old stamps under a magnifying glass instead of negotiating on names.

 

[Future Sensors]

Thanks @Bravo Mod Team.

We clearly have a different approach here, so let me take you through how I personally prefer to work.

For most of my domains, I'm not interested in negotiating at all. In fact I hate it, both as a Seller and as a Buyer. I like having a BIN displayed immediately to every visitor, and don't even care about having those email addresses, and following-up leads. I don't want to educate Buyers, because I'm already busy enough with similar topics on this forum that take up a lot of my time.

Yes, there are many domain investors who love all these interactions and negotiations, and I love all of them, but unfortunately I don't belong to this group. That might be the reason that my forum profile still has a lousy feedback score of 0.

Sure, at some point during the domain purchasing process the buyer will indeed have to enter their email address somewhere, if they don't already have an account. I personally want to stay out of this process as much as possible as a Seller.

Technically, there a number of solutions to make it possible. The simplest way is by displaying a range of buttons, where buyers can be directed to their "trusted" Marketplace, Paypal, AtomPay, EftyPay, Escrow service, a domain brokerage firm, you name it. All this without having to provide their email address to the NamePros Parking Seller at all. The way domain/io is doing this, looks very clean to me.

A technically more advanced way is possible with more integration into NamePros, with APIs from various external parties, and keeping track of the complete transaction this way. Of course, this cannot be implemented quickly, I understand that perfectly.

I am fully aware that my personal preferences as described here, certainly do not represent the preferences of all domainers. I just want to say that the choices made in this area will influence the options I have for listing my domains.

I hope you can appreciate it.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I hope you can appreciate it.

Of course! Why the mutual exclusivity, though?

I am fully aware that my personal preferences as described here, certainly do not represent the preferences of all domainers.

The sales strategy that you've described is perfectly aligned with our buy-now priced landers, along with the setting:

• "Minimum offer: Use buy-now price when available or no minimum offer otherwise"

The only difference is that with all other platforms, you’ll never have the option of liquidating to previously-interested buyers. With our platform, you have the option, even if you never end up using it.

Imagine if you ever want to sell your entire domain portfolio: other investors are going to feel a lot more comfortable investing in your portfolio if your domains come with lots of potential buyers attached, even if you’ve never interacted with them yourself. Our landers take care of all of this for you.

What's the harm in having these options and benefits when there isn’t a downside?

Remember, there's zero chance that a buyer doesn't fill out a form on PHP.io to get a price if they're going to pay $30k for it.

Are we missing anything?

 

[zotix]

Thanks @Bravo Mod Team.

We clearly have a different approach here, so let me take you through how I personally prefer to work.

For most of my domains, I'm not interested in negotiating at all. In fact I hate it, both as a Seller and as a Buyer. I like having a BIN displayed immediately to every visitor, and don't even care about having those email addresses, and following-up leads. I don't want to educate Buyers, because I'm already busy enough with similar topics on this forum that take up a lot of my time.

Yes, there are many domain investors who love all these interactions and negotiations, and I love all of them, but unfortunately I don't belong to this group. That might be the reason that my forum profile still has a lousy feedback score of 0.

Sure, at some point during the domain purchasing process the buyer will indeed have to enter their email address somewhere, if they don't already have an account. I personally want to stay out of this process as much as possible as a Seller.

Technically, there a number of solutions to make it possible. The simplest way is by displaying a range of buttons, where buyers can be directed to their "trusted" Marketplace, Paypal, AtomPay, Escrow service, you name it. All this without having to provide their email address to the NamePros Parking Seller at all. The way domain/io is doing this, looks very clean to me.

A technically more advanced way is possible with more integration into NamePros, with APIs from various external parties, and keeping track of the complete transaction this way. Of course, this cannot be implemented quickly, I understand that perfectly.

I am fully aware that my personal preferences as described here, certainly do not represent the preferences of all domainers. I just want to say that the choices made in this area will influence the options I have for listing my domains.

I hope you can appreciate it.

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At this point, I need to go with @Future Sensors for the first time.

To summarize, What I have learned during my professional career and what is currently "hyped" are platforms that ask for as little information as possible.
No registration; enter your Data (let's assume we talk about Car insurance). We had the rule to ask a maximum of 10-15 questions and display the price, which made a massive difference in dropout rates /abandonment of the process. It was easier to identify (with tools like Hotjar) where the "Heatmap" flagged red, indicating users' concerns, and at the same time, the user was provided with all relevant information.
From a Customer Experience point of view, this is at least worth an A/B Test. Impulsive Buys happen with External triggers and internal cognitive processes (do I need it?). At least here, from my perspective, the decision starts, but without the full information set, it's somehow a roadblock, and then the purchase decision happens.
So, the barrier to signing up somewhere blocks potential users from buying.
I mean (I think Future Sensors mentioned it), using a Google API to sign up would at least be beneficial, keeping the barrier lower.
And tbh. As a customer, I would think, "Oh my god, this will be an endless process - I just want to see the price tag; do they spam me now with newsletters?" -> This is good, but registration after seeing the price and making the decision is always (from my experience) better for CX.

Mustafa

 

[Future Sensors]

@Bravo Mod Team

I don't disagree with you that it can be useful, but the same applies to that, namely that those are things that I personally have no interest in.

And as strange as it may sound, with the insights and experience that I have, I can fully defend your position and will continue to help think along as I have done from the beginning, to make those options that I personally have no need for, a great success for NamePros, in this rapidly changing market.

 

[Future Sensors]

Thanks @zotix

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The simplest way is by displaying a range of buttons, where buyers can be directed to their "trusted" Marketplace, Paypal, AtomPay, EftyPay, Escrow service, a domain brokerage firm, you name it. All this without having to provide their email address to the NamePros Parking Seller at all.

Is that important to you if the opposite doesn’t cost you time or sales?

Do we agree that someone looking to buy a specific domain for $30k is always going to fill out our simple form to check its price?

Once we’re able to fully understand your perspective, we'll be able to design solutions for it.

No registration; enter your Data (let's assume we talk about Car insurance)

So, the barrier to signing up somewhere blocks potential users from buying.

Let’s note that buying a relatively inexpensive commodity like insurance (e.g., $150/mo) that you can buy from many different companies is not the same as buying a one-of-a-kind domain name for $30k.

namely that those are things that I personally have no interest in.

Completely understandable.

Most platforms have a lot of features that users never use. Isn’t this just a feature that you wouldn’t bother using?

We’ve tried to design our landers in a way that wouldn’t inconvenience sellers with your sales strategy. With our minimum offer setting, you’d only be notified when a buyer was purchasing one of your domains. Buyers would be guided automatically toward that.

Is there some part of that process that could be improved?

 

[zotix]

Let’s note that buying a relatively inexpensive commodity like insurance (e.g., $150/mo) that you can buy from many different companies is not the same as buying a one-of-a-kind domain name for $30k.

Which color is your Bugatti?
Just kidding, I don't want these Andrew Tate vibes here.

I totally get your point, but if there's a sign-up barrier, the "sense of urgency" and impulsive buying will definitely decrease (I can research studies on this).
I know that this Domain is unique, one-time available, and not like any other physical Good.

I would not even compare it to a Rolex, which has a higher demand than production - and that's because they do it by intent.
Still, you can configure your watch on the page—see the "Retail price" you (or me) will never get for certain models because you need a buying history with the reseller and a good relationship—and suddenly, they have this watch for you.
It's totally not comparable.
But still, it's like a showcase - let's compare it with Atom; they still show all of the prices without signing in/up.

I think you will definitely have your reasons for that; my humble, not technical (to be careful, because Paul might read), is: Double Opt-in, after Price Request, etc.

Mustafa

 

[dirk]

Let’s note that buying a relatively inexpensive commodity like insurance (e.g., $150/mo) that you can buy from many different companies is not the same as buying a one-of-a-kind domain name for $30k.

Agreed, but most of us ain't selling $30K domains.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

there's a sign-up barrier, the "sense of urgency" and impulsive buying will definitely decrease

Fair point, and we can explore even better ways to achieve that, such as:

A message near the Show purchase price button that says, “8 others are viewing/considering its price” or “8 buyers are considering this price.”

The number 8 would be replaced with the number of confirmed email addresses given the price recently.

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Bravo Mod Team, just now, names can not be added...does this mean an update is happening? (they do not show in pending)

ADD: it as all good now...things are back to normal

 

[SpareDomains]

Thanks @Bravo Mod Team.

We clearly have a different approach here, so let me take you through how I personally prefer to work.

For most of my domains, I'm not interested in negotiating at all. In fact I hate it, both as a Seller and as a Buyer. I like having a BIN displayed immediately to every visitor, and don't even care about having those email addresses, and following-up leads. I don't want to educate Buyers, because I'm already busy enough with similar topics on this forum that take up a lot of my time.

Yes, there are many domain investors who love all these interactions and negotiations, and I love all of them, but unfortunately I don't belong to this group. That might be the reason that my forum profile still has a lousy feedback score of 0.

Sure, at some point during the domain purchasing process the buyer will indeed have to enter their email address somewhere, if they don't already have an account. I personally want to stay out of this process as much as possible as a Seller.

Technically, there a number of solutions to make it possible. The simplest way is by displaying a range of buttons, where buyers can be directed to their "trusted" Marketplace, Paypal, AtomPay, EftyPay, Escrow service, a domain brokerage firm, you name it. All this without having to provide their email address to the NamePros Parking Seller at all. The way domain/io is doing this, looks very clean to me.

A technically more advanced way is possible with more integration into NamePros, with APIs from various external parties, and keeping track of the complete transaction this way. Of course, this cannot be implemented quickly, I understand that perfectly.

I am fully aware that my personal preferences as described here, certainly do not represent the preferences of all domainers. I just want to say that the choices made in this area will influence the options I have for listing my domains.

I hope you can appreciate it.

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The thing I like about Efty & Domain.io is that the domain names resolve to their actual urls instead of redirection. Efty you pay a much higher monthly or yearly fee and then you can process through Escrow etc... at 0% fees.

Domain.io you pay a cheaper monthly or yearly fee than Efty and can create your own button to redirect them to your own sales site to purchase along with Dan, Sedo, Afternic, GoDaddy, etc... which kinda eliminates the "I wanna do my own sales pages but I'm not sure if buyers will have a lack of trust in them" They can buy direct if they trust you and if not they can pick who they trust Escrow, Dan, Sedo, Afternic, GoDaddy etc... which should eliminate purchase abandonment due to trust or worry that without a GoDaddy logo on the sales page it won't work. So it gives ya the lower cost of direct sales but still has the option of the larger markets if a buyer is unsure.

I do think the request price style NamePros is geared for can be useful but personally I prefer this for higher end domain names where I don't want a buy it now shown. Lower end domains 1-5k I'd rather just have it priced and let the buyer pick the purchase venue they trust my site direct, escrow, dan, sedo, afternic, godaddy etc... as lower end domains 999, 1999, 2999, 3999 etc... it's unlikely I'd need their emails as less likely I'd reprice domains below 5k.