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!

 

[Rippa]

Just starting to test NP landers for a couple of names, but it's been 5 days since I added TXT for verification. Tested propagation is good, but domains still unrecognized / unverified. Anyone else have problems if using TXT? Must I use NS (or CNAME)? Thanks!

Resolved.

 

[Optimal Names]

Just starting to test NP landers for a couple of names, but it's been 5 days since I added TXT for verification. Tested propagation is good, but domains still unrecognized / unverified. Anyone else have problems if using TXT? Must I use NS (or CNAME)? Thanks!

I had the same issues with TXT so switched to nameservers. Dynadot registrar.

 

[Skyvisum]

Just starting to test NP landers for a couple of names, but it's been 5 days since I added TXT for verification. Tested propagation is good, but domains still unrecognized / unverified. Anyone else have problems if using TXT? Must I use NS (or CNAME)? Thanks!

Just use the nameservers .I use that and it works faster for me .

 

[Rippa]

Why offer the 'option' of TXT verification if it doesn't work? Should I wait a full week or give up?
(I've already toggled the TXT string onto thousands of names)

Resolved.

 

[Skyvisum]

@Bravo Mod Team ,Under buy now settings where we have payment methods like escrow ,can you also add another buy now method like Atom pay since we can generate a payment from from Atom.
When this is selected it also give options to buyers go pay .

If you can have a conversation with Atom owner about this so that a unique integration is added for Atom Pay .I am sure they wouldn't mind earning their 4.5% commission using the imported lead to close out deals .

 

[Molly]

Hi @Bravo Mod Team. It’s not obvious when looking at the Extras in your Profile, that that’s where you are. The verbiage refers to a domain name, but these are actually Profile -> Extras settings. Conversely, when looking at the domain itself, there’s messaging that asks about overwriting Profile settings, and so it’s more obvious you’re editing the Domain -> Extras in those cases.

It would be helpful if it were made obvious when you’re on profile extras, and not domain extras. These screens are otherwise too similar; compare the two screenshots below. Thanks.

 

[Rippa]

Just starting to test NP landers for a couple of names, but it's been 5 days since I added TXT for verification. Tested propagation is good, but domains still unrecognized / unverified. Anyone else have problems if using TXT? Must I use NS (or CNAME)? Thanks!

Went back (again) to check my work adding verification string. Found answer (a bit shamefacedly) -- and reporting here may benefit another person: Somehow, when copy-pasting the verification string, two spaces were attached in front. I'd checked the tail as identical, but not the head (it wasn't flush with other strings). After adjustment, quickly verified. Yikes!

 

[Future Sensors]

What are the consequences of a blocked forum account for the landers linked to that account? Is there any policy on this?

 

[dirk]

for aesthetics

Aesthetics are grossly overrated. However, it really does contribute to conversion rates in a positive way.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would really like to filter out much of this so I am left with real, true traffic but not sure how to go about that.

That's what Google Analytics tries to do, but as you've noticed, it's not easy for them to do:

• https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9888366

1) About 50% of the views on this day are from City = "(not set") with 90% of that traffic being from United States.
[COLOR=hsl(240, 100%, 47%)]Is it normal to have that many "not set" city names?[/COLOR]

This is not an indication of bots, as you noticed in #3. It solely indicates that the city is currently unknown. Country data is much more readily available than city data.

The average for parked domains is around 30% but it can vary widely depending on the domains. If you have a domain that receives a lot of traffic from a location that doesn't have city data associated with it, then your percentage can be much higher.

2) Here is an example of some interesting subdomain names in visits for this day (but are present any day):
[COLOR=hsl(240, 100%, 47%)]Why are there domain names in the subdomain names?[/COLOR]
/parked/2c8b3f19-0325-4acc-a3dd-31a918e4dbf5.random.<my-domain-name-here>.com
/parked/059879e5-b2e8-4f58-aa46-95f69d92aa34.random.<my-domain-name-here>.com
/parked/8ceb7d00-2a97-11ec-91f8-7446a0f559b0.<my-domain-name-here>.com

If there are only a couple domains with these types of URLs, then you may want to filter out just those domains from your Google Analytics. Those domains may have been previously developed with API endpoints, callbacks, etc., and there may still be other applications/servers trying to reach them from when they were developed.

/parked/view/ (but my domain name doesnt show after "view", its just as seen)

That's because we don't include the domain with these links yet, but it's on our to-do list to update this URL to include the domain name.

3) And these various (but no way exhaustive) subdomain names in front of my domain names. Almost all of these have 3, 4, 5 or more visits each:
[COLOR=hsl(240, 100%, 47%)]Why so many "mx." and multiples of "mx." as the subdomain? I am aware that "mx" has to do with mail servers but why so many "mx.", even "www.www." in front of the domain they're visiting?[/COLOR]
[COLOR=hsl(240, 100%, 47%)]Also, why so many various acc, app, booking, bot, ebay and so many other subdomains in front of the domain they're visiting?[/COLOR]
[COLOR=hsl(240, 100%, 47%)]Are all of these indication of bots? If so, I would love to know how to filter these so I do not see them[/COLOR].

This does not all correspond 1:1 with the city = "(not set)", I can get these with many cities where the name is populated.

Probably bots, but not necessarily all of them. Some of those subdomains may have hosted things in the past before you bought the domains. SEO tools can help you investigate that through backlinks.

What I am trying to arrive at is a genuine "view count" sans the bots, spiders, crawlers, and other creepers out there.

We will provide this data ourselves in the future.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

zshare.com (check the short description)

For your long description, we recommend using bullet points instead of hyphens. It'll look nicer.

You can learn how in this guide:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/html-enabled-text-in-namepros-parking.1027793/

You can also paste our guide into ChatGPT, and it'll do it for you.

 

[Future Sensors]

You can also paste our guide into ChatGPT, and it'll do it for you.

That's smart, I like the idea.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'm not sure that the nameserver changes will be shown that soon.

Tip: GoDaddy's process is automated using DNS. This means that you need to check the nameservers using DNS lookups:

• https://dns.google/
• https://mxtoolbox.com/supertool3?action=dns:&run=toolpage#

As you noticed, DNS can take a while to update, unlike WHOIS, but with those tools above, you'll know when it actually updated and then can accept the offer to get the lower commission.*

* A better way is to run the DNS lookups from within GoDaddy's web hosting environment, but the provided solution is easier and generally sufficient.

I will just have to increase the price on Dan/Afternic due to commission

That's a great option, too.

You can even add a description on your landers that says buying directly through you (e.g., Escrow.com) will save the buyer 20% on the price.

Buyers love a good discount!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Under buy now settings where we have payment methods like escrow ,can you also add another buy now method like Atom pay since we can generate a payment from from Atom.
When this is selected it also give options to buyers go pay .

Absolutely!

We're working on other core features while AtomPay matures as a service, and then we'll add it.

If you can have a conversation with Atom owner about this so that a unique integration is added for Atom Pay .I am sure they wouldn't mind earning their 4.5% commission using the imported lead to close out deals .

Do you want something different from what AtomPay already offers?

Let us know.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It would be helpful if it were made obvious when you’re on profile extras, and not domain extras. These screens are otherwise too similar; compare the two screenshots below. Thanks.

Agreed; will do! Thanks.

 

[Future Sensors]

We're working on other core features while AtomPay matures as a service, and then we'll add it.

Has anyone here in this thread ever purchased a domain using an AtomPay button?

If so, could you share what that experience was like?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

What are the consequences of a blocked forum account for the landers linked to that account?

It depends on the reason for the blocked forum account:

• Scam/Fraud: Landers are disabled.
• High Risk: Descriptions are disabled.
• No Marketplace Access: Buy now, LTO, and descriptions are disabled.

Existing domains are updated accordingly.

Technically, you could request to close your forums account and still use it for parking, assuming your account is in good standing.

Thanks for asking.

 

[Future Sensors]

Rather than opening a new tab when NamePros Privacy Policy is clicked, consider displaying it on the same page in a popup. It will then only show the relevant details, instead of the complete forum.

 

[Future Sensors]

It depends on the reason for the blocked forum account.

• Scam/Fraud: Landers are disabled.
• High Risk: Descriptions are disabled.
• No Marketplace Access: Buy now, LTO, and descriptions are disabled.

Existing domains are updated accordingly.

Technically, you could request to close your forums account and still use it for parking, assuming your account is in good standing.

Thanks for asking.

Thanks. If a forum account gets blocked but the associated landers continue to function, will leads still be forwarded to their email? I’m asking because it’s important to consider this process at this stage. Additionally, will the forum member have time to migrate if the landers stop functioning due to their behavior on the forum?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Thanks. If a forum account gets blocked but the associated landers continue to function, will leads still be forwarded to their email? I’m asking because it’s important to consider this process at this stage. Additionally, will the forum member have time to migrate if the landers stop functioning due to their behavior on the forum?

Landers being disabled is the only scenario in which leads are not forwarded, and that only happens for Scam/Fraud accounts, so we do not allow scammers/fraudsters any time to migrate: Learn more.