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]

When filling in the OFFER, once you click into that field next to USD, the NumericUpDown arrows appear.

Removed the arrows.

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

I agree...the hover part is a little much.

Parking (VIP-only): Hide the popup tooltip disclaimers for descriptions.

Our first VIP-only feature; it's a small start, but every endeavor begins with a first step!

Wait, there's more!
New features continued on the next page.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

On mobile, it's already an improvement, because all 3 lines in the header are now centered.
On desktop it's still uneasy for the eyes because the lines are not centered yet.

It's based on the size of the text, which changes depending on the size of the screen (e.g., mobile or desktop).

On desktop it's still uneasy for the eyes because the lines are not centered yet.

That's the most beautiful part of the page if you ask me.

Our opinions on style differ for this one.

 

[Future Sensors]

I actually had 3 points, you seem to respond to only one.

Are you looking at the Nuggies lander, or the Mouth lander from @Skyvisum?

I still hope you understand what I mean with "messy" when you look at the Mouth lander.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I actually had 3 points, you seem to respond to only one.

Every imaginable position and spacing was explored.

This is our favorite, currently.

Mouth lander from @Skyvisum

This one.

I still hope you understand what I mean with "messy" when you look at the Mouth lander.

The star doesn’t look messy to me, but that area does look a little nicer without the star. However, the credibility and information provided by the star is worth it.

We might be able to design our own star that looks better.

The current star is from Font Awesome.

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Bravo Mod Team, thanks for all the work!

I really like the checkmark move off of the line with the domain name. The date of check/addition is a touch that might give a degree of comfort to some buyers.

I'm sure it is part of the data pulled by the code, and it is certainly something insignificant, but leaving off the actual UTC info might make the line a little cleaner. (just have the date)

 

[Future Sensors]

It would be nice to have a variety of domain lander designs available for selection in the Future.

 

[T-B]

The "Minimum offer" feature has suddenly stopped working. I'm getting now all emails, regardless of the Offer amount. In addition, there is no message anymore indicating there is a minimum offer when submitting the form.
Please fix it.
Thank you.

Here you can see I suddenly started to get emails notification of 3 inquiries without offers while before the same type of inquiry didn't trigger email notification:

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The "Minimum offer" feature has suddenly stopped working. I'm getting now all emails, regardless of the Offer amount. In addition, there is no message anymore indicating there is a minimum offer when submitting the form.
Please fix it.
Thank you.
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Here you can see I got emails notification of 3 inquiries without offers while yesterday the same type of inquiry didn't trigger email notification:
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Thanks for letting us know.

It looks like it only affects priced domains, and it was caused by our latest round of updates.

We'll get it fixed ASAP.

Update: Fixed within 24 hours on a weekend.

 

[Future Sensors]

It would be nice to have a variety of domain lander designs available for selection in the Future.

Perhaps this could even be achieved through a community design contest, like the logo design contests.

See also this thread, where I’m currently gathering feedback on which landing page designs (and elements on the lander) domain sellers find most appealing and effective across the industry.

 

[alcy]

Did I mention I made my first NP sale the other day? It was only a couple of days after moving the domain to NP landers. …Granted, it was for only 30% of BIN, but it was also a really good learning experience.

Thanks NP & @Bravo Mod Team! If our paths ever cross in real life, the next round is on me!

what about other great members like alcy etc who pay the round?
and also what was the bin. cause 30percent of 1milion is still fockumoney for most

and fumoney is purpose of life..
financially speaking of course

 

[Molly]

what about other great members like alcy etc who pay the round?
and also what was the bin. cause 30percent of 1milion is still fockumoney for most

and fumoney is purpose of life..
financially speaking of course

Of course, thank you, @alcy! Yours should have been the first name. And I wish the BIN were high enough to retire on; I’m still in the hole overall.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I’m still in the hole overall.

The domain seller who does the most sales every year through Escrow.com wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars before learning how to be profitable in this business. Your trajectory is probably a lot better, so far. You got this!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars before learning how to be profitable in this business

Sources:

• https://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2023/may.htm
• https://domainsherpa.com/andrew-rosener-300k-interview/

Now, does something like $100MM/year in domain transactions. Yes, ~$100 million dollars each year.

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Edited to add proof:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1859943841895264375

https://archive.is/nLk7O

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

The "Minimum offer" feature has suddenly stopped working. I'm getting now all emails, regardless of the Offer amount. In addition, there is no message anymore indicating there is a minimum offer when submitting the form.
Please fix it.
Thank you.
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Here you can see I suddenly started to get emails notification of 3 inquiries without offers while before the same type of inquiry didn't trigger email notification:
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Fixed.

Thanks again for reporting.

 

[T-B]

Added!

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).

Where is this setting located?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Where is this setting located?

It's under the other radio button: "Use buy-now price when available or no minimum offer otherwise"

 

[Optimal Names]

Sources:

• https://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2023/may.htm
• https://domainsherpa.com/andrew-rosener-300k-interview/

Now, does something like $100MM/year in domain transactions.

That Domain Name Journal interview is highly recommended and inspirational.

 

[T-B]

Fixed.

Thanks again for reporting.

Still not working.
I've just received another email with "Your offer: None".
And when I try to submit the form as a visitor, there is indeed no mention of a minimum offer amount in the website or on the email.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Still not working.
I've just received another email with "Your offer: None".
And when I try to submit the form as a visitor, there is indeed no mention of a minimum offer amount in the website or on the email.

It sounds like you might not have minimum offer enabled (or a buy-now price) for that domain.

Could you send us an image of both your default profile setting and the settings of that particular domain?

Please feel free to send it in a direct message.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Still not working.
I've just received another email with "Your offer: None".

Thanks; that's a new one.

The previous one is fixed: priced domains with default minimum offers are working correctly now. (Uses profile defaults.)

(Update: Fixed!) This new one: unpriced domains with default minimum offers are not using the profile settings. (Should use profile defaults.)

These settings are still working correctly:

• Priced domains with a minimum offer on a particular domain name. (Does not use profile defaults.)
• Unpriced domains with a minimum offer on a particular domain name. (Does not use profile defaults.)

This is only a small fraction of all possible configurations that need to be tested after each update.

We appreciate your help with detecting and reporting them to us.