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!

 

[NorthernDomains]

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.

They're bots or bot farms. Boardman, Burnaby, Dublin, Council Bluffs, Ashburn, and all of the Eastern block countries are useless stats.

The important stats are time-on-site.

 

[Optimal Names]

They're bots or bot farms. Boardman, Burnaby, Dublin, Council Bluffs, Ashburn, and all of the Eastern block countries are useless stats.

The important stats are time-on-site.

Yes, definitely those cities... plus San Jose (CA-USA) and Midlothian (Chicago-USA) for me

 

[Future Sensors]

A lot of the tools that are used by domain investors themselves to check how many domain extensions have developed websites, also regularly crawl our landers.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

just wondering if you have noticed an increase on landers?

Yes, it began around the time we improved support for https:// access on subdomains of parked domains.

It's a little technical, but here's an attempt to explain it simply:

We noticed that a lot of second-level subdomains and beyond (e.g., third.second.first.example.com) were from bot traffic and were using up our allotted security certificates for each domain, so we shifted all of that excess availability to first-level subdomains only (e.g., first.example.com).

As a result, parked domains are now receiving more traffic on single-level subdomains (e.g., single.example.com and single.example.co.uk) and less bot traffic from the other levels (e.g., other.first.example.com and other.first.example.co.uk).

Edited to improve clarity.

 

[Future Sensors]

The important stats are time-on-site.

That's indeed an important metric that can be tracked in Google Analytics.

Here's how Brandpa is measuring this on their marketplace and landers.

https://sellers.brandpa.com/analytics-data-now-available-to-view/

https://sellers.brandpa.com/knowledgebase/how-brandpa-calculates-our-analytics/

(I don't know whether these advanced stats are still made available to Sellers, because I currently don't see them in the Brandpa Dashboard. Only the basic number of views within the Brandpa marketplace and number of views originating from external search / direct lander visits.)

 

[Future Sensors]

Here's how Atom is measuring interest:

https://www.atom.com/blog/a-new-framework-to-measure-domain-name-interest/

See this posting, as well:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/na...on-and-much-more.1324080/page-13#post-9164939

 

[NorthernDomains]

Here's how Atom is measuring interest:

https://www.atom.com/blog/a-new-framework-to-measure-domain-name-interest/

See this posting, as well:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/na...on-and-much-more.1324080/page-13#post-9164939

In this business, stats are king. The more stats, the better. Google Analytics is for companies with many visits and a sizeable website.

As domainers, we have different needs. Most importantly, we need to assess if our domains are attracting interest so we can make enlightened decisions when renewals come around.

I hope NamePros realizes this importance and can go well beyond what other marketplaces offer.

 

[Optimal Names]

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?

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Not really one domain in particular, it seems as if it was an across the board spike.

Here is Oct-10-2024 (685 views) compared to Oct-11-2024 (4,611 views) from one day to the next. Typical views per domain are usually less than 30 but spiked up on Oct-11 for some reason and its not the only time I've seen this since 27-July when I began using GA. There have been several spike days during that 2 1/2 months.

Maybe it coincides with solar storms, who knows.

@NorthernDomains mentioned that time-on-site is the metric to look at so that is what I am going to do going forward.

BTW, most of the traffic originates from the same spots (in no order):
(not set), Russia
(not set), France
Ashburn, VA
Boardman, OR
(not set) Japan
Midlothian, IL
New York, NY
Santa Clara, CA
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Xinxiang, China
Dublin, Ireland
(not set), Seychelles

What is interesting is how one domain (many of them actually) will have visits from these locations all within minutes of each visit during the same hour. For example, on 2024-10-11 at 2200 hours one of the 380 domains was visited what seems like rapid-fire from:

Lytkarino, Russia
Paris, France
Ashburn, VA (USA)
Boardman, OR (USA)
(not set), Seychelles
Midlothian, IL (USA)
New York, NY (USA)
Santa Clara, CA (USA)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Xinxiang, China
Dublin, Ireland
Winter Park, FL (USA)

Some will be visited more and some less. It has to be some sort of services checking, even bots perhaps.

Just FYI.

Still newish to GA and learning.

 

[DomainRecap]

Yet another question...

As your authorization does not include a long-term soft option (where the DNS TXT is authorized once) what happens if a domain listed through NP expires and the registrar cuts off the DNS?

Does it just go offline (as it would on Dan or Afternic) or does something happen on the NP backend in response, such as suspension or deletion of this domain name?

I ask because I regularly do reevaluations of expiring domains to ensure they are worth renewing and sometimes I'm late getting the renewal in, so there is some "dead air" in between. On Dan, GD. Afternic, Sedo, etc. (soft authorizations) it's no problem, but your method seems a bit more day-by-day.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

what happens if a domain listed through NP expires and the registrar cuts off the DNS?

Best case scenario: nothing happens.

Worst case scenario: the domain becomes unverified but still accepts offers from visitors to it. Once you verify it again (or we automatically verify it again), all inquiries that occurred while the domain was unverified will appear in your account for you.

Our service always accepts offers on domains to avoid missing potential leads before the domain is verified or re-verified.

We hope this helps.

 

[Lox]

Some will be visited more and some less. It has to be some sort of services checking, even bots perhaps.

... most of them are deployed to test & record (for a legit reason) payment integration/gateway (buy now, order now, etc button links)

for example Boardman, OR (USA) could be Stripe bot via AWS hydro-powered data center.

 

[domvault]

a huge spike in traffic in last week or so

i also receive huge traffic from following locations :

Ashburn, VA
Boardman, OR
(not set) Japan
Midlothian, IL
New York, NY
Santa Clara, CA
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Xinxiang, China
Dublin, Ireland

most likely bots

 

[NameGroove]

Can you add a place where we can cross promote our other names? A link to our portfolio? Maybe with some marketing copy... "Discover more premium names available for sale"?

I'd want to toggle this on/off by name - so only having it show on a subset of my names promoted on NP landers

 

[Future Sensors]

Can you add a place where we can cross promote our other names? A link to our portfolio? Maybe with some marketing copy... "check out our other names for sale"?

In domain details view, you should see this (for verified domains)

Buy now price (Edit)

 

[NorthernDomains]

@Bravo Mod Team

Where are you in adding payment methods? Any news?

What else is on the horizon?

Thanks

 

[NameGroove]

Can you add a place where we can cross promote our other names? A link to our portfolio? Maybe with some marketing copy... "Discover more premium names available for sale"?

I'd want to toggle this on/off by name - so only having it show on a subset of my names promoted on NP landers

@Bravo Mod Team Also - when we choose BIN the preselected button remains on "start a conversation". I think it should preselect to "BIN" when we choose BIN and have a price shown.

Also what does the copy "Just one available" mean? One available domain like this available for sale? That copy seems weird to me. Perhaps change to "Available For Sale"?

 

[NameGroove]

Another problem with these landing pages is that they are blank in regards to "trust" logos. No accredited BBB, no Escrow logo, no paypal logo, no cc logos, no trustpilot score, etc. Now I understand some sellers don't accept Escrow or Paypal and may push to Atom, Sedo, or whomever for payment. I realize their is no "trustpilot" for namepros, etc. But the blank page just is missing this concept, and if I were a buyer, I'd be hesitant. Even BrandBucket has told me that buyers pay 25% more to buy from Afternic/GoDaddy even after finding the name with them because they don't "trust' BB as much as GoDaddy. So the question is - how can we add something to this page to make it more "trustworthy"? Bodis describes Escrow.com. Afternic has the GoDaddy logo and phone #, and states "simple, secure, and fast transfer". Dynadot lists all the cc's they accept. I think we should consider adding something to this page. Happy to brainstorm what and how we can add something in this area

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

A link to our portfolio?

Yep, we're adding an option to link to any website that you control.

Maybe with some marketing copy... "Discover more premium names available for sale"?

We could add a new template variable called {website}, and then you can use that variable with your marketing copy in the description area.

Would that work?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Where are you in adding payment methods? Any news?

What else is on the horizon?

The team is currently busy with imports because it's requiring a massive rewrite of that process and related options.

After that's finished, a lot of exciting things will be rolling out.

Stay tuned!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

when we choose BIN the preselected button remains on "start a conversation". I think it should preselect to "BIN" when we choose BIN and have a price shown.

Also what does the copy "Just one available" mean? One available domain like this available for sale? That copy seems weird to me. Perhaps change to "Available For Sale"?

Yep, both of these are pending an update thanks to feedback from others.

Typically, these would have been updated in an hour or two, but due to the large rewrite that is taking place to support imports, we're unable to do non-emergency updates until that's finished.

We'll get these both updated as soon as we can.