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!

 

[DN_Hunter]

You can set a minimum offer individually or globally in the settings.

Yes, the BRAVO team mentioned this global setting. The Individual setting won't work because it would take too long for me.

I could set a MIN of $1,000 for my entire portfolio, but how do I set another MIN for the higher priced names? I would have to do it individually and that won't work for me.

BRAVO Team mentioned BULK is coming soon -- I can't wait

 

[T-B]

I noticed that Archive.org (Wayback Machine) is archiving the NamePros landing page for parked domains, and I don't think anyone wants this.

To block Archive.org from doing this, please follow these simple instructions:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.co...org-from-getting-information-of-my-website-wi

Thank you!

 

[Skyvisum]

I noticed that Archive.org (Wayback Machine) is archiving the NamePros landing page for parked domains, and I don't think anyone wants this.

To block Archive.org from doing this, please follow these simple instructions:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.co...org-from-getting-information-of-my-website-wi

Thank you!

@Bravo Mod Team ,is there a way you can block this or do we have to do it ourselves ?

 

[DN_Hunter]

I added a $1,000 MIN across my entire portfolio just to test this out.

I just tried this to test it out.

1) added $1,000 MIN across all my domain names
2) so it does NOT show when the buyer first visits -- they will enter a small amount (or leave blank)
2a) email popup to confirm email address (1 email to buyer)
2b) assume they confirm, they get offer rejected because too low (2nd email)
2c) they can make a new offer, if it still is too low it gets rejected (3rd email to buyer) -- then MIN offer is displayed

I think the MIN price should be displayed after the first rejection. This prevents them from getting too many emails (which might frustrate the buyer)

OK - I think this might show "frustration" on the part of the buyer. I just added the MIN across all of my names. And this just happened about 15 minutes ago -- you can see the 3 emails I was talking about. Buyer seems to have gotten frustrated and typed in $10 Trillion Dollars to get past the MIN Offer. BTW, I accept the offer if they are serious

 

[Synozeer]

OK - I think this might show "frustration" on the part of the buyer. I just added the MIN across all of my names. And this just happened about 15 minutes ago -- you can see the 3 emails I was talking about. Buyer seems to have gotten frustrated and typed in $10 Trillion Dollars to get past the MIN Offer. BTW, I accept the offer if they are serious

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I agree. People just keep entering bids until they go over the minimum. It should tell them the miinimum and prevent them from sending an email until they hit the minimum. After all, that's why we set a minimum - to avoid wasting time with lower bids.

 

[Optimal Names]

OK - I think this might show "frustration" on the part of the buyer. I just added the MIN across all of my names. And this just happened about 15 minutes ago -- you can see the 3 emails I was talking about. Buyer seems to have gotten frustrated and typed in $10 Trillion Dollars to get past the MIN Offer. BTW, I accept the offer if they are serious

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Party at your place! :P

Did they start with the 250 and then go DOWN to 200? And then back up? That seems strange.

I've had very similar happen at DAN some time ago. For one domain, I received nearly 50 MIN offers almost, like from a bot, within about an hour's time, and some of the offers were absurd like that top on in your photo.

I dont know what the answer is, myself. Its a frustrating part of the business. I wish the process were more like physical real-estate but it isnt and likely will never be.

 

[Skyvisum]

OK - I think this might show "frustration" on the part of the buyer. I just added the MIN across all of my names. And this just happened about 15 minutes ago -- you can see the 3 emails I was talking about. Buyer seems to have gotten frustrated and typed in $10 Trillion Dollars to get past the MIN Offer. BTW, I accept the offer if they are serious

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Now do the price available instantly by enabling the BIN .I was expecting buyer should have gotten an email stating you won't accept anything less than your quoted minimum.

I got a reaction similar as buyer was guessing and started from 100 until they went up to the BIN I set but still in the works as it was a mid 5 figures.

When they are ready they will pay .In it for a long term .

 

[Skyvisum]

OK - I think this might show "frustration" on the part of the buyer. I just added the MIN across all of my names. And this just happened about 15 minutes ago -- you can see the 3 emails I was talking about. Buyer seems to have gotten frustrated and typed in $10 Trillion Dollars to get past the MIN Offer. BTW, I accept the offer if they are serious

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Did you message them after this?I would begin a conversation at this point

 

[alcy]

10 bucks he dont have 10 trillion

 

[NameGroove]

You have no way of knowing they asked you to email them without email confirmation.

Someone else could have entered his email address, either accidentally or maliciously.

I agree with you re the email... what I personally have issue with is the price isn't shown prior. if the price were shown and then they wanted to put in their email for a "special offer or to be notified of a special discount in the future" or something similar, then I'd agree 100% that requiring the opt-in is warranted. My issue has more to do with the fact that the pop up block creates too many hurdles before the price is shown. There should be a hurdle before one is emailed.

After writing the above it simply may be that my desire to show a BIN price may make me not a good candidate for NP landers which are designed for a different purpose than I have.

On the positive side the landers loaded fast, were very clean, easy to read/understand and loaded re of my ad blocker.

 

[Skyvisum]

OK - I think this might show "frustration" on the part of the buyer. I just added the MIN across all of my names. And this just happened about 15 minutes ago -- you can see the 3 emails I was talking about. Buyer seems to have gotten frustrated and typed in $10 Trillion Dollars to get past the MIN Offer. BTW, I accept the offer if they are serious

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We get offers like these at Dan,sedo and even bodis .Some buyers are like that and the trolls are there to send ridiculous enquiries .

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

That user did not have a MIN (unless I missed it in their writeup).

That user did use our minimum offer feature as we described.

He called it the “meet-my-entry-point” strategy.

You can see more details here:

I noticed that Archive.org (Wayback Machine) is archiving the NamePros landing page for parked domains, and I don't think anyone wants this.

Why would you want to block it from being archived? Sales statuses are already archived in various ways that cannot be blocked, such as DNS.

It should tell them the miinimum and prevent them from sending an email until they hit the minimum. After all, that's why we set a minimum - to avoid wasting time with lower bids.

That’s exactly how it works, after 1-2 blind offers.

My issue has more to do with the fact that the pop up block creates too many hurdles before the price is shown.

Coming soon.

 

[Synozeer]

Why not just show them the minimum after their first offer instead of having them make a few blind offers? All they need to do is keep feeding it random offers until one comes through, and it's usually something high that they won't be willing to pay. I feel it's more professional that way and keeps the fake bids at a minimum.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Why not just show them the minimum after their first offer instead of having them make a few blind offers? All they need to do is keep feeding it random offers until one comes through, and it's usually something high that they won't be willing to pay. I feel it's more professional that way and keeps the fake bids at a minimum.

It's a compromise because some sellers never want it shown.

It's the middle ground: Learn more.

 

[Synozeer]

It's a compromise because some sellers never want it shown.

It's the middle ground: Learn more.

Maybe have a toggle in our settings so we can choose the behavior? Then everyone is happy

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Maybe have a toggle in our settings so we can choose the behavior? Then everyone is happy

Then it couldn't be free, unfortunately. Development and maintenance are very expensive.

As a free service, we can offer reasonable solutions for most situations; we cannot offer an option for everything.

We hope you understand.

Edit: Please continue to share your suggestions, even if we can’t do them yet. We may be able to do them in the future.

 

[Future Sensors]

Then it couldn't be free, unfortunately. Development and maintenance is very expensive.

The decision to offer this service for free is entirely yours, but it’s clear that this approach has its limitations, and Sellers have quite a few reasonable demands. I’ve mentioned several times that I’m willing to pay for your service in any form. I’ve suggested various options. If you truly want to move forward, I believe more significant steps are necessary, such as removing the dashboard from the forum design to make it as user-friendly as possible. Additionally, enhancing API integration with partners would help cater to Sellers who prefer minimal involvement.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I’ve mentioned several times that I’m willing to pay for your service in any form.

Free is better. Support the service by using it.

Once the core free functionality is finished, maybe we'll offer extensive customization through an optional paid plan.

Then we'll send everyone your way to thank for it.

 

[alcy]

actually there is no way to use np landers unless we make np account. this results in new members... who post... view ads.. click on sponsored links.. buy memberships ...and whatever else... so when they say use landers that's the benefit part for np... np dont need to charge shit for landers... they already profit from it indirect... of course fully deserve it too. just pointing out to obvious in case anyone ask themselves... cheerios

 

[Future Sensors]

actually there is no way to use np landers unless we make np account. this results in new members... who post... view ads.. click on sponsored links.. buy memberships ...and whatever else... so when they say use landers that's the benefit part for np... np dont need to charge shit for landers... they already profit from it indirect... of course fully deserve it too. just pointing out to obvious in case anyone ask themselves... cheerios

While I agree with your point, I also recognize that significant financial investments being made. My main argument is that members would likely just be willing to pay for this service separately. There are various ways to implement this, which could significantly accelerate development.