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!

 

[Molly]

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.

Thanks, @Bravo Mod Team. I was wondering about using txt. Is that enough to use NP landers, or do I have to actually use the NP NS, and are there generic ones?

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team
I'm getting a "template error" message with some domains.

 

[names2sell]

I'm getting a "template error" message with some domains.

for me it started right after i added the google analytics tag

 

[NorthernDomains]

It looks like it has propagated to all domains.

 

[names2sell]

for me it started right after i added the google analytics tag

I just removed the google analytics tag and now it's fine

 

[Skyvisum]

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

We're also working on a fix that will resolve that.

Give us a bit.

I just removed the google analytics tag and now it's fine

@Bravo Mod Team ,I think it's better to add something on your end so we can do away with the Google analytics and just see the views on each domain visit. I don't trust Google .

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

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

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

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

Fixed; now analytics will work for both "NamePros domain" and "Visited domain" options.

Thanks again for reporting!

I'm getting a "template error" message with some domains.

I just removed the google analytics tag and now it's fine

It was a temporary error while the updates were being applied.

Everything is all set now.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

add something on your end so we can . . . just see the views on each domain visit.

On our to-do list.

 

[names2sell]

Fixed; now analytics will work for both "NamePros domain" and "Visited domain" options.

Thanks again for reporting!



It was a temporary error while the updates were being applied.

Everything is all set now.

So if we are using the new option that shows the visited domain in the address bar, then does that mean we have to create a different google tag for each domain? Or can we still just generate one tag and say it's for NamePros.com?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I was wondering about using txt. Is that enough to use NP landers, or do I have to actually use the NP NS, and are there generic ones?

Yes, TXT is enough, but if you also want redirection, you'll need to configure URL forwarding or use our CNAME record, assuming you don't want to use name servers (NS). NS is the easiest option, all around.

We do not have generic name servers at this time.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

So if we are using the new option that shows the visited domain in the address bar, then does that mean we have to create a different google tag for each domain? Or can we still just generate one tag and say it's for NamePros.com?

Same as before; it should just work if you used our guide.

 

[Molly]

Hey @Bravo Mod Team. Why might domains that have been verified be showing up under Domain Names, but not under Parking Dashboard? Thanks.

 

[Molly]

Sorry, @Bravo Mod Team; another question. What’s the deal with camel case? Do NP landers do that, or do I have to? There’s a message about casing on the screen where you add domains, but I’m not sure I entirely understand it. Thanks.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Why might domains that have been verified be showing up under Domain Names, but not under Parking Dashboard? Thanks.

Those two pages are sorted differently. Is that what you’re noticing?

What’s the deal with camel case? Do NP landers do that, or do I have to?

We don’t do it automatically yet, but you can do it when adding domains or afterward under Edit.

 

[Molly]

Those two pages are sorted differently. Is that what you’re noticing?

There’s a very small fraction of my domain names appearing in Dashboard vs Domain Names. I’m not sure it really matters as long as they all work. That’s still to be determined.

We don’t do it automatically yet, but you can do it when adding domains or afterward under Edit.

What does the message mean when you’re adding domains? Say I add one more domain now, and it is in camel case, will checking that box mean you’ll auto change to camel case on all my domains?

 

[Mister Funsky]

So I go away (and dark) for a few days of R&R and I come back to all these upgrades...simply awesome work NamePros! The URL update is great!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

There’s a very small fraction of my domain names appearing in Dashboard vs Domain Names.

It’s a partial list, indicated by the “See all” button below it. Admittedly, it’s easy to miss with the other buttons there:

We should move that “See all” to the left side on its own.

• Done! We moved only it to the left so it stands out.

“Domain names” pages are also partial lists once there are more than 50 domains to show, and then it’ll show page numbers, similar to threads on NamePros.

What does the message mean when you’re adding domains? Say I add one more domain now, and it is in camel case, will checking that box mean you’ll auto change to camel case on all my domains?

The checkbox “Update preferred casing for existing domains” will allow you to update the casing on domains that you’ve already added to your account.

When you first add a domain to your account, it uses the casing you provide. If you add that same domain again, then it won’t change the casing of it from the first time you added it, unless you checkmark that checkbox. It can be used to bulk update the casing of many domains quickly.

We’ll improve the explanation of that checkbox. Thanks.

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team

A feature request;

How difficult would it be to add time-limited discounts on certain domains? A timer would count down until the sale ends, and then the domain would return to its original price.

This is a well-known marketing approach.

 

[Molly]

Sorry; it seems I just can’t get enough today. When I type in a name, NP displays the url with a forward slash at the end. What is that and is it intended behavior? Thanks.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

When I type in a name, NP displays the url with a forward slash at the end.

Which browser are you using? Does it show that for the forums, too?