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!

 

[DomainRecap]

3. The way they generate links, I don't think possible to automate, but if it was possible GoDaddy link to pay would be popular.

I think it would have to be some manual field you pasted the Cart link into, and then the customer would receive it, but it would be more professional and provide better record-keeping format than email and Excel.

 

[DomainRecap]

Currently, yes because this helps sellers deactivate domains that have sold or expired.

If we add soft verifications as a feature, then that won’t be necessary anymore, but it will result in more outdated listings, accidental sales, and fraud, unfortunately.

We can probably come up with a better solution for any domainers with privacy concerns.

Please reach out to us.

Just so I understand this:

1) If you use a DNS TXT system you need to leave the TXT entry active at your registrar and the only way to list is to forward each domain to https://namepros.com/parked/example.com?

2) If you use the user-specific nameserver setting then= you can change the nameservers on all domains, and the listed domains will automatically appear on a NP lander?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

1) If you use a DNS TXT system you need to leave the TXT entry active at your registrar and the only way to list is to forward each domain to https://namepros.com/parked/example.com?

Yes, but forwarding is not the only way. Here's an example of what we mean by "link to it":

• https://rackassembly.com/

Notice the link on the "Buy this Domain Name" button. That configuration is using TXT verification.

CNAME is generally a better option than TXT if you have a lot of domains because it will handle the verification and redirect with a single method.

NS (name servers) is the easiest method and provides the most features.

2) If you use the user-specific nameserver setting then= you can change the nameservers on all domains, and the listed domains will automatically appear on a NP lander?

Yep, that's the easiest and fastest way.

That's also true for CNAME, depending on your DNS provider (e.g., your registrar).

Do you have your domains spread across multiple registrars or at a single registrar?

We can provide more specific guidance for your particular registrar if you'd like.

 

[DomainRecap]

We can provide more specific guidance for your particular registrar if you'd like.

No worries as I have that part all in hand, and I'm more interested in choosing the method with the least work while also keeping privacy concerns in mind.

I may list newly purchased domains with you guys, to keep the workflow manageable and have the ability to test-run all three options. Then, if I like the process and the results, move more over.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[DomainRecap]

One more inquiry:

I saw the "Coming Soon" features with the ability to add a logo, graphics, images, etc. on the landers, but is there already, or is there a plan to provide, something basic like a choice of background colors, like on Dan?

I really liked that as I could switch things up for holidays, seasons, etc. or just change colors to freshen the lander up every few months.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

is there already, or is there a plan to provide, something basic like a choice of background colors, like on Dan?

I really liked that as I could switch things up for holidays, seasons, etc. or just change colors to freshen the lander up every few months.

Yep, we currently have these options, along with a hue slider:

Those settings can be set on specific domains or all domains.

Our designer has also been working on expanding that over the past few weeks.

More to come!

 

[DomainRecap]

Our designer has also been working on expanding that over the past few weeks.

Awesome and it looks great.

Hope you can add 'hex color codes" as a future update, as that's what I use now and I find it a lot easier to center in on, than a slider or color wheel.

I just find a color I like, slap it in my graphics program and bingo, instant color code that I know is right.

Thanks again as you guys are working overtime.

 

[Lox]

• https://rackassembly.com/

If there was a bit of a discussion @ NPs about anything rack assembly + domain name ... google will pick up the blab in 1-2 min & neutralize "Loneliness" (can't find much info on other sites ).

.... just some info that will require you to think about park & popcorn vs park and do something

Regards

 

[Innoverge]

@Bravo Mod Team
I have a buyer who has initiated transaction via namepros lander through escrow.com for $24,888 but, the escrow commission displayed including concierge service fee seems to be erroneous (1.72%), from their old fee schedule.

The buyer is being asked to send funds without any rectification from escrow.com as well.

I would like this looked into and clarified/resolved immediately especially since I have a pending transaction.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I have a buyer who has initiated transaction via namepros lander through escrow.com for $24,888

Congratulations! Love to hear about sales through our landers.

the escrow commission displayed including concierge service fee seems to be erroneous (1.72%), from their old fee schedule.

The buyer is being asked to send funds without any rectification from escrow.com as well.

I would like this looked into and clarified/resolved immediately especially since I have a pending transaction.

On our end, the only thing we send to Escrow.com to enable concierge is the following:

 "extra_attributes": {
               "concierge": true
           }

We do not specify or have any control over the fees that Escrow.com places on transactions.

We'll reach out to Escrow.com's developers to ask about it, but for your transaction, you may want to contact Escrow.com's customer support, give them the transaction ID, and they should be able to assist you quickly.

Let us know if you need help with anything.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

from their old fee schedule.

The buyer is being asked to send funds without any rectification from escrow.com as well.

Maybe transactions through partners like us are grandfathered into the lower fee structure from before, since their fees changed after our implementation? That'd be nice.

In any case, intentional or unintentional, Escrow.com should honor what is being shown to your buyer, in our opinion. They can update it for future transactions if it was unintentional.

 

[Innoverge]

Congratulations! Love to hear about sales through our landers.

There's a good chance this transaction might be fake but, the escrow fee discrepancy is serious.

Maybe transactions through partners like us are grandfathered into the lower fee structure from before, since their fees changed after our implementation? That'd be nice.

Instead of assumptions, certainty would be nice.I'd rather not have transactions disrupted because of misleading info or API related discrepancies.I would like you to verify this with them and clarify.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I would like you to verify this with them and clarify.

We've reached out to their developers, but they tend to work regular business hours.

For 24/7 support, only their customer service is available, and their customer service won't speak to us about your transactions.

We'll let you know once we hear back from their developers.

Please let us know if you hear anything sooner.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

from their old fee schedule

We've received confirmation from Escrow.com that this is intentional.

Enjoy the savings!

 

[Innoverge]

We've received confirmation from Escrow.com that this is intentional.

Enjoy the savings!

Ok, thanks.

 

[Mister Funsky]

@Bravo Mod Team, just wondering if you have noticed an increase on landers?

My assumption is bots (or another entity) is doing some heavy scrolling...in my case, this morning it went from 20-30 visit/page for top names to almost 300. Some names having dozens of visits to landing page in minutes.

I don't have a problem with traffic but hope this isn't something else.

 

[Optimal Names]

@Bravo Mod Team, just wondering if you have noticed an increase on landers?

My assumption is bots (or another entity) is doing some heavy scrolling...in my case, this morning it went from 20-30 visit/page for top names to almost 300. Some names having dozens of visits to landing page in minutes.

I don't have a problem with traffic but hope this isn't something else.

All of a sudden, today, "real time" views are at any given time today in the hundreds when normally there are < 10 and usually its under 5 within the past 30-min. So something is definitely different today.

 

[DomainRecap]

All of a sudden, today, "real time" views are at any given time today in the hundreds when normally there are < 10 and usually its under 5 within the past 30-min. So something is definitely different today.

The 'bots are coming! The 'bots are coming!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

All of a sudden, today, "real time" views are at any given time today in the hundreds when normally there are < 10 and usually its under 5 within the past 30-min. So something is definitely different today.

We aren't seeing much change in this across the board today, but one of your domains may be experiencing a traffic spike (e.g., a news website may have linked to your domain by accident).

Is there a single domain under "Views by Page title" accounting for most of that increase in real-time traffic?

 

[Paul]

Bots are constantly crawling parked pages (and just about everything else on the internet), but Google is better at filtering out some than others. I've noticed an increase in the types of bots that Google often thinks are human. The bots in question don't actually submit inquiries; they're often from R&D companies that are just scraping content.