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!

 

[Dane]

@Bravo Mod Team - Are there any other background color choices available?

 

[Elad n]

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I get it now, so you if you want to reveal the price immediately you get the option to start a converstation or BIN

but when you choose the email confirmation option (better in my opiniong as you get the lead - you lose the start a conversation button no?
getting that button on this scenario as well is a work in progress right?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Are there any other background color choices available?

Yep: https://www.namepros.com/parking/profile

Give theme hue “180” a try. It’s a beautiful option. Alternatively, if you’re a fan of green, then “160" is nice, or “170” for an option in-between those two.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

but when you choose the email confirmation option (better in my opiniong as you get the lead - you lose the start a conversation button no?

Currently, yes. It'll appear like this if you use the recommended option: https://nuggies.ninja

getting that button on this scenario as well is a work in progress right?

We plan to add a "Contact seller" button to the 2nd page, after email is confirmed.

Do you also want a "Start a conversation" option in addition to the "Show purchase price" option on the 1st page, before email is confirmed?

Let us know.

 

[Optimal Names]

I am going to switch back FROM Visited domain (masked redirect) because my Google Analytics has shown only a "/" for the visited domain.

It has been about 11 hours since I made that switch, last night at about 11:20 PM my local time (Eastern USA timezone).

In looking at reports there is a clear change in visited page being reported. Not sure if I need to change anything in GA (I didnt, yet) or what.


2024-SEP-20 data only

2024-SEP-19 and 2024-SEP-20 data

 

[Elad n]

Currently, yes. It'll appear like this if you use the recommended option: https://nuggies.ninja


We plan to add a "Contact seller" button to the 2nd page, after email is confirmed.

Do you also want a "Start a conversation" option in addition to the "Show purchase price" option on the 1st page, before email is confirmed?

Let us know.

I'm only using the second option so this
"We plan to add a "Contact seller" button to the 2nd page, after email is confirmed"

will be great.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I am going to switch back FROM Visited domain (masked redirect) because my Google Analytics has shown only a "/" for the visited domain.

It has been about 11 hours since I made that switch, last night at about 11:20 PM my local time (Eastern USA timezone).

In looking at reports there is a clear change in visited page being reported. Not sure if I need to change anything in GA (I didnt, yet) or what.


2024-SEP-20 data only

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2024-SEP-19 and 2024-SEP-20 data

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For the first image ("Landing page"), you can just add "Hostname" as a column under the "+" symbol; that will show the domain name. You can also do this on the second image.

For the second image ("Pages and screens"), you can press that down arrow to switch from Path path and screen class to Path title and screen class (notice title instead of path).

The data's all still there.

Update: We'll update our Google Analytics guide to cover this soon.

 

[Optimal Names]

For the first image ("Landing page"), you can just add "Hostname" as a column under the "+" symbol; that will show the domain name.

For the second image ("Pages and screens"), you can just press that down arrow to switch from Path path and screen class to Path title and screen class (notice title instead of path).

The data's all still there.

Ok, will change those reports now

 

[Dane]

Do you also want a "Start a conversation" option in addition to the "Show purchase price" option on the 1st page, before email is confirmed?

What if there was a "Start a conversation" option on the first page... but their email would need to be confirmed before they're able to actually start that conversation?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

What if there was a "Start a conversation" option on the first page... but their email would need to be confirmed before they're able to actually start that conversation?

That's how our landers work by default for unpriced domains.

Do you think we should add that option for priced domains, too?

 

[Dane]

Do you think we should add an option for priced domains, too?

I don't see why not. Communication between buyer and seller is always a good thing... especially if their email can be verified first before the buyer can contact us.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I don't see why not. Communication between buyer and seller is always a good thing... especially if their email can be verified first before the buyer can contact us.

For priced domains by default, the price can't be seen until they verify their email. Once they verify their email, the price is shown and lines of communication are opened to both parties.

Here's a demo if you'd like to see it in action:

• https://nuggies.ninja

With this added context, do you think that lander could still benefit from a "Start a conversation" option?

Just want to be sure.

 

[Dane]

With this added context, do you think that lander could still benefit from a "Start a conversation" option?

Me, personally? Yeah, I do. If someone has a question (any question) I would encourage them to reach out. Sometimes a sale can be made from what started as a simple conversation.

 

[RapidNames.com]

We recommend removing your domains from other marketplaces.

I don't agree.

Few of my buyers never visited direct url, they found the domains from godaddy network. so it will be a good option to keep the name but with 30% to 50% higher amount. If buyer found the domain through other marketplaces and visited the url surely they will like the 30% discounted price.

if any network beat godaddy network in future, it will be a great thing for domainers & domaining but i highly doubt that, bcoz dan played well in past but it got sold.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Few of my buyers never visited direct url, they found the domains from godaddy network.

Some end-users are going to start their search for the domain they want at their registrar. Let's imagine it doesn't show as available there.

The very next thing that buyers are going to do is visit the domain name to see what's there and whether they can purchase it, assuming they have a genuine interest in your domain name.

However, when buyers find it at their registrar, they don't have a reason or need to visit the domain name.

It's helpful to ask your previous reg-path buyers what they would've done if it didn't show as available at their registrar. Their responses may surprise you.

This will increase your confidence that 100% removal is the winning strategy.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Sometimes a sale can be made from what started as a simple conversation.

Absolutely; completely agree!

The part we're trying to predict is whether buyers who choose not to reveal the instantly-available price would choose to start a conversation. If yes, then we should add this option because we want to increase leads. If it's unlikely that such a buyer would exist, then we can spend those dev resources on other requested features.

We appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us.

 

[davidc1]

Some end-users are going to start their search for the domain they want at their registrar. Let's imagine it doesn't show as available there.

The very next thing that buyers are going to do is visit the domain name to see what's there and whether they can purchase it, assuming they have a genuine interest in your domain name.

However, when buyers find it at their registrar, they don't have a reason or need to visit the domain name.

It's helpful to ask your previous reg-path buyers what they would've done if it didn't show as available at their registrar. Their responses may surprise you.

This will increase your confidence that 100% removal is the winning strategy.

Have you tested that ? On which tld ?
Do you have numbers to show us ?

look a t here :

https://twitter.com/x/status/1837085581416800503

 

[RapidNames.com]

> I request to add wishlist / shortlist feature with count or similar.

> Showing visitor's count (numbers / graph (optional)) would be great. (clarity.microsoft.com / openwebanalytics / statcounter )

> Share button or allow to add fb or x links.

 

[Dane]

The part we're trying to predict is whether buyers who choose not to reveal the instantly-available price would choose to start a conversation.

 

[Elad n]

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Why would they want to start a conversation? they didn't even bother to confirm their emails and see the price
so most likely ones that will want to talk will be spamming you.