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!

 

[Future Sensors]

This is one reason I've favored having the domain names actually resolve on the domain name itself instead of a common url structure that's easy to block sedo.com/ afternic.com/ etc...

Efty and Dan etc... allow the domains to resolve to the actual urls, these days maybe Dan doesn't work as well on that as previously due to SSL issues though.

Yes, that will partly reduce the risk of blocked pages, or even the entire forum.

Additionally, there are other methods to consider, such as analyzing name servers, IP addresses, or using deep packet inspection to monitor page content in real-time. The possibilities are endless.

 

[NameGroove]

There will be an option soon to show the price first.


They do offer this one option, but their landers may be inaccessible to millions of potential buyers, which is the last thing you want if your intention is to sell your domains.

While they can temporarily unblock themselves with enough effort and time, there are big organizations like uBlock who will work just as hard to repeatedly block them.

That’s fine for ads, but if you’re trying to sell your domains, it could cost you sales.

Also, they have less than half the features that we have when it comes to for-sale landers, and we are adding new significant features every month.

I agree. But showing the price first is paramount to me - so until that option is installed, I remain with Bodis for some of my landers. I have had sales with them - although, perhaps due to blocking, lower than they could've been. Hard to say. Bodis landers are serving nowadays at least.

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

Are there any of you who have NP landers on all or most of their domains? I would like to do so but I am discouraged from the fact that I have them listed on Afternic & Dan and if I use NP landers on all my domains and one of them is sold on Afternic/Dan, the commission will be 25% instead of 15%(which is now that the nameservers point to Dan). What I have done on my only 2 domains using NP landers is to increase the BIN price by 10% on the above marketplaces in case they are sold there and not on NP but potential buyers may see that e.g. on Atom the price is lower than on Afternic/Dan... I'm saying all this because I received an inquiry on Dan on 1 of my 2 domains that has NP lander and I would have preferred if he had made the offer through NP lander due to commision.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Are there any of you who have NP landers on all or most of their domains?

I've got over 1K+ names pointed to NPs.

I've got a couple still at Dan and not many more than that pointed to Afternic. All names are listed on both those marketplaces to keep dirtbags from listing them.

All leads I've had (and will get) thru NPs I give the option to purchase the name from whatever source they would like...they just have to pay the extra commission. So, if they want afternic and I've told them the price is 1,000 (thru NPs landers), the cost to process thru afternic is 1,300.

 

[Jannes]

I'm saying all this because I received an inquiry on Dan on 1 of my 2 domains that has NP lander and I would have preferred if he had made the offer through NP lander due to commision.

Inquiry? Then you can still change that lander.

compare to:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/afternic-commission-advice.1295032/#post-8883341

 

[Jannes]

All leads I've had (and will get) thru NPs I give the option to purchase the name from whatever source they would like...they just have to pay the extra commission. So, if they want afternic and I've told them the price is 1,000 (thru NPs landers), the cost to process thru afternic is 1,300.

why not Custom Checkout?

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

"commission fees for Custom Checkout Link are not dependent on nameservers"

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

Inquiry? Then you can still change that lander.

compare to:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/afternic-commission-advice.1295032/#post-8883341

I made a counter offer and have not received a reply. But anyway, it is not convenient in the future to keep changing nameservers and wait for some time until these changes are shown. (sometimes while I was changing the nameservers, in whois the old ones would show even a few hours later and then Dan would say I don't qualify for the 15% commission) I wish he had made me the offer through NP. Anyway I will probably point my domains to NP and do what Mister Funsky does.

 

[Mister Funsky]

why not Custom Checkout?

I've used that option and it works well. The question is: After Dan is retired, will the 'checkout' link still be available at the lower rate?

Of course I'll offer the best financial options to my buyers as long as it is a major marketplace (Dynadot, Afternic, Sedo, etc.)

 

[NorthernDomains]

I've used that option and it works well. The question is: After Dan is retired, will the 'checkout' link still be available at the lower rate?

Of course I'll offer the best financial options to my buyers as long as it is a major marketplace (Dynadot, Afternic, Sedo, etc.)

Use Afternic; same thing. Send the lead to them and get the 5% charge.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Use Afternic; same thing. Send the lead to them and get the 5% charge.

Yep, that's what I said above. It's 5% with checkout link.

If you 'send' them the lead and a broker gets involved, it will be 15%, 20%, 25% or 30% depending on nameservers and/or whether boost is activated or not.

ADD/EDIT: To keep this post on topic, Namepros option is 0%.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

This is one reason I've favored having the domain names actually resolve on the domain name itself instead of a common url structure that's easy to block sedo.com/ afternic.com/ etc...

Efty and Dan etc... allow the domains to resolve to the actual urls, these days maybe Dan doesn't work as well on that as previously due to SSL issues though.

Blocking by domain would be a rudimentary way for these organizations to do it. The more effective way is for them to block the IP addresses associated with those companies. That's easy for them to do.

If their IPs are blocked, then it won't matter if the domain resolves on the domain itself or redirects; it'll still be blocked.

I still prefer when they resolve to the actual url with no provider shown.

We expect to have an option to not redirect the domain very soon, for aesthetics.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I made a counter offer and have not received a reply. But anyway, it is not convenient in the future to keep changing nameservers and wait for some time until these changes are shown.

The trick is to not commit to a price. Guide the buyer toward the amount you want, and when you are ready to accept it, then change the nameservers before you accept.

For example, you can use loose language like, "I'd most likely sell for $15k." Then, they have to get confirmation from you before they can proceed to the payment step.

You only have to change the nameservers before they receive payment to get the lower commission. It's an automated process that is checked once payment arrives, not before.

We hope that helps.

 

[Future Sensors]

Blocking by domain would be a rudimentary way for these organizations to do it. The more effective way is for them to block the IP addresses associated with those companies. This is easy to do.

Although this approach is rationally logical, there is a risk that after numerous observations of parked pages on the redirected destination URL, volunteers may tag the main forum domain anyway. Those volunteers, who may not be interested in the forum’s primary purpose, might only notice an abundance of parked pages on the domain, so they will tag it as being another parking provider.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Although this approach is rationally logical, there is a risk that after numerous observations of parked pages on the redirected destination URL, volunteers may tag the main forum domain anyway. Those volunteers, who may not be interested in the forum’s primary purpose, might only notice an abundance of parked pages on the domain, so they will tag it as being another parking provider.

That should be easy to appeal and resolve if it happens.

 

[Future Sensors]

That should be easy to appeal and resolve if it happens.

Not always easy, because such lists can be persistent in distributed configurations.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Not always easy, because such lists can be persistent in distributed configurations.

As long as we're aware of it quickly, that won't be an issue. If we don't notice it for a while, then it'd still only affect a small subset of systems that are poorly managed and not updating their caches.

 

[Future Sensors]

Okay.

 

[Future Sensors]

It's not really about caching, it's about engineers copy/pasting lists. Compare with e.g. bogons and RBL configs in SMTP servers that, once configured, can remain unchanged for a long time.

 

[Domain Pro Seller]

You only have to change the nameservers before they receive payment to get the lower commission. It's an automated process that is checked once payment arrives, not before.

We hope that helps.

Yes, but a few months ago I had a chat with an agent from Dan and whois still showed Dan's nameservers and not the default nameservers of Godaddy (I had forwarded a domain to NamePros). I had them changed for a few days) and if I didn't send a screenshot of the DNS section of Godaddy showing that the nameservers didn't point to Dan, they would think I was qualified for 15% commission instead of 25% (I wasn't stupid to give myself away, I didn't have a lead, I just wanted to check what they would say. I mean, I'm not sure that the nameserver changes will be shown that soon. Please see the photo below: at first I was told "It shows you are currently pointed to Afternic's nameservers. This qualifies you for the 15%" and then on my encouragement they looked into it further and said that I didn't qualify for the 15% commission.

Anyway, I certainly can't prevent a buyer when they want to buy a domain of mine with a BIN, which is why today I pointed my domains to NamePros. (by the way the process could not be easier and faster!) I will just have to increase the price on Dan/Afternic due to commission

 

[Future Sensors]

Avoid these words

https://github.com/jarelllama/Scam-Blocklist/blob/main/config/parked_terms.txt