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]

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

Agreed on everything except the profit part.

NamePros is very open with us about the fact that it invests anywhere from 2X to 10X more than it makes into the community, every year. Never less. Fortunately, private investment in NamePros is mostly a "paying it forward" endeavor, not a for-profit one. Otherwise, NamePros wouldn't exist. NameBio's similar.

This industry needs far more philanthropy if it's ever going to advance; currently, it's just NamePros and NameBio. Yes, both earn money, but their inputs are not even close to their outputs.

So while you're right that the landers help NamePros grow, it's not in terms of profit. It's in terms of participation and hopefully leading to a healthier industry.

 

[Optimal Names]

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.

I definitely see both points and agree with both. I, too, would pay some sort of fee to receive certain benefits. Of course, perhaps they'll consider those testing and suggesting grandfathered in.

 

[Future Sensors]

NamePros is very open with us

Always thought so!

 

[Future Sensors]

In a garden where wisdom blooms,
A tree stands tall, its colors loom,
A bouquet of knowledge, vibrant and bright,
A symbol of gratitude, a guiding light.

NamePros, a beacon in the domain sea,
Investing in community, selflessly.
Not for profit, but to give back,
A philanthropic heart, never slack.

From 2X to 10X, they invest with care,
Paying it forward, a vision rare.
Without such spirit, they wouldn’t exist,
In a world where profits often persist.

NameBio too, follows this path,
Giving more than they earn, a generous math.
This industry needs more of this kind,
Philanthropy leading, a future aligned.

So while free landers help them grow,
It’s not profit, but participation they sow.
A healthier industry, their ultimate goal,
With wisdom and kindness, they make us whole.

 

[alcy]

In a garden where wisdom blooms,
A tree stands tall, its colors loom,
A bouquet of knowledge, vibrant and bright,
A symbol of gratitude, a guiding light.

NamePros, a beacon in the domain sea,
Investing in community, selflessly.
Not for profit, but to give back,
A philanthropic heart, never slack.

From 2X to 10X, they invest with care,
Paying it forward, a vision rare.
Without such spirit, they wouldn’t exist,
In a world where profits often persist.

NameBio too, follows this path,
Giving more than they earn, a generous math.
This industry needs more of this kind,
Philanthropy leading, a future aligned.

So while free landers help them grow,
It’s not profit, but participation they sow.
A healthier industry, their ultimate goal,
With wisdom and kindness, they make us whole.

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I always suspected u are reincarnation of rumi

 

[RapidNames.com]

hover text (endorsement) on short & long description is mandatory ?

Can we move it to privacy page?

 

[RapidNames.com]

please allow to add image (with limited size) in long description area, that would be great.

 

[Name Trader]

I have tried to eliminate some deleted/deleting domains by uploaded the list again. It found some other errors too. Originally everything was approved, but now there are some other errors too. Which seem to be mostly typos with my new list. What is the best way to delete some domains from my sales list. I processed aprox 1540 domains but there were only about 430 processed. What happenned to the rest? I'm now pretty confused. Is there any chance to I can go back to the position before this last update about 6 hours ago?

rgds
Stu

 

[DN_Hunter]

I was looking at the NP Lander for one of my domain names.

When filling in the OFFER, once you click into that field next to USD, the NumericUpDown arrows appear.
I don't think that is needed -- it might actually stop the user from putting in a value. For instance, they start to write 100 but realize once they type 1 the arrows go up/down in increments of 1 dollar

This might indicate to an end user that they can get the domain name cheap and stop typing what they were originally going to offer. What I mean is if they see the up/down arrows move in increments of 1 dollar, they are more likely to think it's possible to get something for maybe $5 or $10 -- because they moved that up arrow alot in their minds.

I would change that field to be freeform numeric (no up/down arrows). Just validate that they entered a valid numeric

 

[Skyvisum]

I was looking at the NP Lander for one of my domain names.

When filling in the OFFER, once you click into that field next to USD, the NumericUpDown arrows appear.
I don't think that is needed -- it might actually stop the user from putting in a value. For instance, they start to write 100 but realize once they type 1 the arrows go up/down in increments of 1 dollar

This might indicate to an end user that they can get the domain name cheap and stop typing what they were originally going to offer. What I mean is if they see the up/down arrows move in increments of 1 dollar, they are more likely to think it's possible to get something for maybe $5 or $10 -- because they moved that up arrow alot in their minds.

I would change that field to be freeform numeric (no up/down arrows). Just validate that they entered a valid numeric

@Bravo Mod Team ,this sounds tricky. I support this suggestion to have it removed.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would change that field to be freeform numeric (no up/down arrows). Just validate that they entered a valid numeric

Agreed, don’t know why that’s there. We’ll remove it.

Edited to note that it seems to be added there by the browser. It does not appear on mobile.

 

[Mister Funsky]

hover text (endorsement) on short & long description is mandatory ?

Can we move it to privacy page?

I agree...the hover part is a little much. Privacy page would be enough as it is already disclaimed by the large line at the bottom "Descriptions are provided by the seller."

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

hover text (endorsement) on short & long description is mandatory ?

Can we move it to privacy page?

We can probably do this for VIPs, but it might be too much of a liability if we did it for non-VIPs.

Edited to note that this was added as a VIP-only feature.

 

[DN_Hunter]

Agreed, don’t know why that’s there. We’ll remove it.

Edited to note that it seems to be added there by the browser. It does not appear on mobile.

Interesting -- just tried on Chrome and Edge -- both put that Up/Down arrow there.
My iPhone did NOT (like you said).

You have alot of data -- does one of your data points indicate Mobile vs. Desktop/Browser? It would be interesting how many single-digit offers come in across all offers made are from Desktop Browser.

I have quite a few offers of $1, $3, $5, $10 (before putting in the MIN across my entire portfolio) and wondering if all of those came from a Desktop Browser that displayed the up/down arrow

 

[Future Sensors]

Agreed, don’t know why that’s there. We’ll remove it.

Edited to note that it seems to be added there by the browser. It does not appear on mobile.

Maybe this helps for removing the arrows/spinners:

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_hide_arrow_number.asp

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I have tried to eliminate some deleted/deleting domains by uploaded the list again. It found some other errors too. Originally everything was approved, but now there are some other errors too. Which seem to be mostly typos with my new list. What is the best way to delete some domains from my sales list. I processed aprox 1540 domains but there were only about 430 processed. What happenned to the rest? I'm now pretty confused. Is there any chance to I can go back to the position before this last update about 6 hours ago?

Did most of the domains show as “Ignored”? The status “Ignored” just means that they were already approved and are actively listed in your account. That status is a good one because it indicates no problems, just duplicate entries.

Please feel free to send us a direct message if you’d like to privately share anything with us (e.g., a screenshot of your imports page) so we can assist better.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

You have alot of data -- does one of your data points indicate Mobile vs. Desktop/Browser? It would be interesting how many single-digit offers come in across all offers made are from Desktop Browser.

It’s probably a better use of our resources to just stop the arrows from showing rather than to analyze their prior impact.

 

[Future Sensors]

I think it would be interesting/fun to experiment with two mandatory fields, one below the other:

1/ My current offer for this domain
2/ My maximum budget for this domain

 

[Future Sensors]

As a follow-up question, what strategy would you adopt when presented with these two mandatory fields, as a buyer, @Bravo Mod Team?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

As a follow-up question, what strategy would you adopt when presented with these two mandatory fields, as a buyer, @Bravo Mod Team?

Most buyers don’t have any context of what they’re doing when they’re making an offer. They would probably assume they’re dealing with someone acting on their behalf and input their true maximum budget.

A savvy buyer would not share their maximum budget, even with a broker or representative of theirs.

It’s a very interesting idea!