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!

 

[Optimal Names]

@Bravo Mod Team I think I found a problem with the pagination of my domains.

I just finished added all if my domains to NP landers and I wanted to create a baseline spreadsheet for them. I keep a spreadsheet of domains I have listed at each marketplace and for what prices, etc.

ATM there is no CSV download so I have been copying/pasting the 8 pages of domains into a text editor. Then I clean it up with a couple of regex operations and then move the entire thing into the master sheet that I keep. In doing this manual effort I have noticed the following:

NP paging states that I have 378 domains listed and this is correct, verified by going to my registrar and seeing 378 domains set to NP lander nameservers.

However:
1) 44 domains do not show up on any of the 8 pages when I page through.
2) I can find all of the domains which do not show up using the find domains function.
3) Of the 44, above, all were added on Aug-22 or Aug-23.
4) 35 domains are showing up twice across different pages.
5) 8 domains are showing up three times across different pages.
6) All of the domains which show up twice or even three times across the pages were also added Aug-22 or Aug-23.

The domains are definitely there. I can edit them (after finding them) and I can see traffic going to them.

I think its just a pagination issue but wanted to let y'all know and see if anyone else has noticed similar.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I just finished added all if my domains to NP landers

I think its just a pagination issue but wanted to let y'all know and see if anyone else has noticed similar.

Thanks for letting us know! That'll be easy to fix since it's just a display issue.

Update: Fixed!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I encouraged him to reach out to integrate with Namepros.

Escrow.Domains let us know that they're working on it.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

If escrowdomains is going to act congenial, I won't be using them ..

We believe that @korganian meant that in a positive way.

He was saying that Reggie at Escrow.Domains was being very friendly and helpful. The KYC process at Escrow.Domains is very straightforward, easy, and quick.

@stevanlieberman and team are doing great work.

 

[Skyvisum]

We believe that @korganian meant that in a positive way.

He was saying that Reggie at Escrow.Domains was being very friendly and helpful. The KYC process at Escrow.Domains is very straightforward, easy, and quick.

@stevanlieberman and team are doing great work.

Then I take back my statement and an apology to Reggie if he is seeing this

 

[T-B]

Another improvement suggestion to "Minimum offer" feature:
Instead of having a fixed "Minimum offer" for all domains, there should be an option to choose a percentage.
For example:
If domain1 is priced at $1000 and the Minimum Offer Percentage is set to 30%, the Minimum Offer for this domain1 will be $700.
If domain2 is $50, the Minimum Offer will be $35.
etc.

 

[equity78]

Try using Dan or Atom to close .If escrowdomains is going to act congenial, I won't be using them ..

Congenial is a good thing, they are pleasant to deal with.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Another improvement suggestion to "Minimum offer" feature:
Instead of having a fixed "Minimum offer" for all domains, there should be an option to choose a percentage.
For example:
If domain1 is priced at $1000 and the Minimum Offer Percentage is set to 30%, the Minimum Offer for this domain1 will be $700.
If domain2 is $50, the Minimum Offer will be $35.
etc.

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Excellent idea! The developers have been informed.

 

[Future Sensors]

The number of domains using NamePros Parking NS doubled in just one day.

Congrats to the team

 

[DediRock]

Wow

Sounds good..

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

any way to check which name wasn't added? I don't wanna compare 100s names one by one tnx

This feature was added today.

You can now see exactly which domains were not added successfully. There are now tabs for each status.

Visit the import to see it.

 

[Future Sensors]

This feature was added today.

You can now see exactly which domains were not added successfully. There are now tabs for each status.

Visit the import to see it.

This boost looks great!

Here's a example screenshot for those members who'd like to get an idea.

 

[justlife]

Not sure what you are charged, but my last transaction was 5%. Please share with us any lower percentages you have found.

https://blog.afternic.com/custom-checkout-link/

I've never used before, but atom import a lead is just 4.5% commission.

https://helpdesk.atom.com/en/articles/5524079-import-a-lead-for-standard-wlm-listings

 

[pb]

Not sure what you are charged, but my last transaction was 5%. Please share with us any lower percentages you have found.

https://blog.afternic.com/custom-checkout-link/

sedo escrow is 3% and you can split the commission or make it paid by the buyer
https://sedo.com/us/services/domain-transfer-service/

 

[alcy]

sedo escrow is 3% and you can split the commission or make it paid by the buyer
https://sedo.com/us/services/domain-transfer-service/

they say from 3%
do u know what it means?

 

[pb]

they say from 3%
do u know what it means?

IIRC there's a minimum fee, so it might make it more than 3% for cheaper domains. There's also 2.5% on top if either side wants to keep the sale unpublished. But I used this a few times and it was always 3%.

 

[alcy]

IIRC there's a minimum fee, so it might make it than 3% for cheaper domains. There's also 2.5% on top if either side wants to keep the sale unpublished. But I used this a few times and it was always 3%.

great..I use dan 5p all time. but 2p less is still money so I may try sedo. I am sure it's not as fast and smooth as dan and sedo probably got fewer all across push accounts like example I doubt they got sav... but... worth a try... I dont think anywhere it's cheaper than 3p... next step is basically free.

 

[pb]

great..I use dan 5p all time. but 2p less is still money so I may try sedo. I am sure it's not as fast and smooth as dan and sedo probably got fewer all across push accounts like example I doubt they got sav... but... worth a try... I dont think anywhere it's cheaper than 3p... next step is basically free.

Yeah, the transfer process is a bit more cumbersome and you need to pay attention to VAT (depending on where you live) as the prices are VAT inclusive for physical persons but net for companies, I hate it (also people sometimes lie that they are a company but then when it comes to issuing the invoice they give you personal data, lol). On the other hand I recently used dan checkout and it was way worse, the domain got "stuck" somehow and both me and the buyer were being sent between dan and afternic support, took over a week to resolve. So YMMV in both cases. Sedo may have its quirks but in general I think it's more reliable than anything GD.

 

[Mister Funsky]

IIRC there's a minimum fee, so it might make it more than 3% for cheaper domains. There's also 2.5% on top if either side wants to keep the sale unpublished. But I used this a few times and it was always 3%.

Thanks for the info. Since I keep most sales private, I would have to 'opt' for the added fee bringing it to 5.5%.

I began using sedo almost 20 years ago (wow, time do fly) but due to several cra cra events, I lost log in capability years ago...still have some really top tier names, that I no longer own, listed in my old account. I will likely open a new one soon.

Godaddy checkout link has been seamless for me...I've never used Dan to complete a sale.

 

[pb]

Godaddy checkout link has been seamless for me...I've never used Dan to complete a sale.

Just to be clear - I generated a checkout link from afternic and it was a dan.com URL. The buyer used that link and somehow the transaction got stuck somewhere between afternic and dan. Even funnier was when afternic (after a few days) asked me to push the domain to them after the domain had already disappeared from my account via fast transfer. But eventually them managed to find it.