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!

 

[NicTraders]

Yep, that will be part of our upcoming "Portfolio Website" feature (aka, seller portfolio pages):

• 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.

Admittedly, that will take a while because that's a big one to develop.

Most other features are relatively quick.

Forgive me, as I haven't read the first 40 pages of this thread, and maybe this has been covered already...
This is a fairly decent undertaking, which takes a bit in the way of resources. And NP has already proven that it's better at taking on valuable feedback from its community than I think any other marketplace/landing page provider.

So, I'm wondering - can you divulge what the end-game is here? Do you intend to spin-off this side of the business as a standalone enterprise in the long-run? I don't think anyone would begrudge you if you did - we all know there is about to be a big void left as Dan goes the way of the dodo, and Afternic gets worse by the day as the GD machine swallows all in its path. Surely NP doesn't commit these ongoing resources just for fun?...

Thanks!

 

[NorthernDomains]

Thanks for letting us know what we should prioritize.

Statistics.

Google Analytics draws a big picture but is useless on an individual domain level. It is not designed with a domain sales portfolio in mind.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

NP has already proven that it's better at taking on valuable feedback from its community than I think any other marketplace/landing page provider.

Thank you for the kind words.

can you divulge what the end-game is here?

Some things we've written in the past:

• Apr 14, 2024
• Aug 29, 2024
• Sep 2, 2024

Another aspect is that, although there are exceptions, the domain industry is seriously struggling:

The current environment (market liquidity, stability, etc.) and its availability of necessary tools are insufficient for most investors to be successful.

Imagine how difficult it would be to do business if ExpiredDomains were to close tomorrow? NameBio? Domaining.com? DSAD? DNJournal? Dan? RIP. None of these services are guaranteed. None of them have replacements on the horizon except Dan.

Remember all of the amazing resources that have come and gone? Protrada. Dofo. Payoneer Escrow. FreshDrop. Voodoo. Countless blogs. The list goes on and on.

The industry is holding on by a thread, and that thread gets thinner every year.

NamePros is one of the only stable brands to have survived the past two decades, but that isn't a guarantee, either:

NamePros is a domain community. Unless more investors are able to find success, we'll go extinct along with the rest of the industry, other than a WhatsApp-sized group of investors and companies that will remain. Lifelines are needed.

We're doing our part to keep it alive.

You can do your part by joining us.

 

[NicTraders]

The current environment (market liquidity, stability, etc.) and its availability of necessary tools are insufficient for most investors to be successful.

...

NamePros is a domain community. Unless more investors are able to find success, we'll go extinct along with the rest of the industry, other than a WhatsApp-sized group of investors and companies that will remain. Lifelines are needed.

...

We're doing our part to keep it alive.

You can do your part by joining us.

Well, thanks for your service to the industry. I wish you all the best. The good thing is that you have the community here to assist (and you listen), whereas other providers generally look at what's going to make them money and by and large ignore what investors ask for. This puts you in the box seat to be successful, which would be a good thing.

As soon as bulk import is available I certainly plan to give the landers a go.

 

[Skyvisum]

@Bravo Mod Team ,

Anyway to add number of views on each domain .

I know Google analytics shows that but please add this to the list of what to add in future.

Thank you so much for what you have created so far for us to use .

 

[NamesBond]

It would be great to include some credibility-boosting elements on the "NamePros-branded" landing pages for potential buyers who might be unfamiliar with the domain aftermarket and need reassurance.

For example, prominently featuring a Trustpilot rating or the Better Business Bureau (BBB) logo would go a long way in establishing trust. Additionally, highlighting partnerships with well-known companies like Escrow.com or PayPal would add another layer of credibility. Simple statements such as "NamePros, serving the domain community since 2003" or "NamePros, helping businesses find the perfect domain for over 20 years" would emphasize the longevity and reliability of the platform. Finally, some assurance that all data submitted is safe and will not be sold without the customer's specific consent would be helpful. (Or a "Do not sell my personal information" opt out option.)

Above being said, major kudos to the NP team for taking on this monumental task and offering it free of charge! Like many others here, I’m excitedly waiting for the final touches and features to be rolled out before I migrate my names over from DAN. If your progress so far is any indication, I can’t wait to see what incredible things you’re going to accomplish in the future!

PS - Yes, I do realize that Dan's days are numbered and I better get moving pronto!

 

[Peak.Domains]

Logged in for the first time in ages to see this new feature, huge win, very cool, nice job NP!

I'd love to see you charge for this tbh, whether it's a subscription or a small % from sales, or even if it ultimately requires an upgraded NamePros account to list above X number of names - anything would be more than fair if that helps fund the development and allows you to put even more pressure on the (... I'll stop here to avoid going off-topic in a heated rant about many of the other places that have offered landing pages over the years.)

Anywho, really nice to see this, and especially skimming some of the comments, it seems like the team is doing some great work that actually benefits domain investors. The devs at a certain big poppa in the industry are probably sweating when they see how you're able to take feedback and make improvements. Seems like they buy up competitors to take them behind the shed, rather than to improve their products. In this case, they might make you an offer simply for access to whatever magical spells you've cast to fix an issue in under a decade or to have CSS that isn't broken. Oops, couldn't help myself :P

before I migrate my names over from DAN

I've got some bad news for ya, if you haven't seen yet, lol...

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team

I'm looking at my Analytics; no stats are showing for my NamePros domains. The only stats are from my Bodis parked domains.

Has something changed during updates?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'm looking at my Analytics; no stats are showing for my NamePros domains.

Sorry about that; small oversight with the new “Address Bar Display” feature. It only affects analytics if that new feature is enabled.

We’ll get that fixed ASAP. Update: Fixed within 24 hours.

Thanks for reporting!

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team

Would it be difficult to add bolded text in the expanded description field? As it is, bolded text is written this way: **bolded text**.

 

[Skyvisum]

Sorry about that; small oversight with the new “Address Bar Display” feature. It only affects analytics if that new feature is enabled.

We’ll get that fixed ASAP.

Thanks for reporting!

Yes it does .Since namepros server is what generates the analytics for each domain visit.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Would it be difficult to add bolded text in the expanded description field? As it is, bolded text is written this way: **bolded text**.

We currently support bolded text in all descriptions, including the expanded descriptions, using HTML:

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

Are you requesting that we add support for Markdown in addition to HTML?

Let us know.

 

[Molly]

QQ - do domains automatically default to make an offer once added to NP? That is, are they ready to accept offers from getgo / by default once ownership is verified, or is there an additional action I have to take?

 

[NorthernDomains]

We currently support bolded text in all descriptions, including the expanded descriptions, using HTML:

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

Are you requesting that we add support for Markdown in addition to HTML?

Let us know.

I'll use HTML instead of a text file.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

QQ - do domains automatically default to make an offer once added to NP? That is, are they ready to accept offers from getgo / by default once ownership is verified, or is there an additional action I have to take?

Yes, domains are ready to accept offers as soon as visitors land on our landing pages, even before the domain is added to your account or verified.

Once the domain is added and verified, you'll unlock access to inquiries that arrived before you verified them.

This is very handy in case verification ever lapses (e.g., domain expired briefly) or you forget to add them to your account.

 

[Molly]

Sorry, @Bravo Mod Team; another question. When using unique NS like those at NP, could someone theoretically find your entire portfolio by searching for your unique NS someplace?

I’m trying to figure out if unique NS can act like profile links when you don’t want them to. Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks.

 

[Skyvisum]

Sorry about that; small oversight with the new “Address Bar Display” feature. It only affects analytics if that new feature is enabled.

We’ll get that fixed ASAP.

Thanks for reporting!

Analytics is working again on my end .
Thank you Awesome Team

 

[NorthernDomains]

Analytics is working again on my end .
Thank you Awesome Team

Ah yes, it's working now.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Analytics is working again on my end .
Thank you Awesome Team

Ah yes, it's working now.

It now works if the visitor's browser doesn't block third-party cookies, which is becoming more common.

We're also working on an update that will work if third-party cookies are blocked.

Give us a bit.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

When using unique NS like those at NP, could someone theoretically find your entire portfolio by searching for your unique NS someplace?

Yes. You can use TXT or CNAME verification to reduce that if it's a concern. You can also create another NamePros account for a different verification ID.