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!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

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

Absolutely, we'd love additional ideas on this.

We've seen some sellers add those elements (e.g., credit card logos and offer GoDaddy's checkout as a payment option) using the description areas, but we've also had a lot of requests for a Dan-like lander, so we may be adding one of those soon that'll have those elements as part of the lander (i.e., cannot be removed) for sellers who don't want to add them manually.

The current lander is intended to be simple, customizable, and easy to hide "NamePros" on it.

Adding BBB.org or buyer reviews is tricky because a lot of sellers want to remove the "NamePros" brand from their landers as much as possible.

Open to all suggestions from everyone. ❤

 

[NameGroove]

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


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?

Possibly. Where would it appear, within the short description area - below whatever short description we create -but above the expanded description? It might be interruptive in that area (for names where we have expanded descriptions). If it was always at the bottom (either below the short description if there was only a short description) and below the expanded description if that was added - then it would work.

 

[NameGroove]

Absolutely, we'd love additional ideas on this.

We've seen some sellers add those elements (e.g., credit card logos and offer GoDaddy's checkout as a payment option) using the description areas, but we've also had a lot of requests for a Dan-like lander, so we may be adding one of those soon that'll have those elements as part of the lander (i.e., cannot be removed) for sellers who don't want to add them manually.

The current lander is intended to be simple, customizable, and easy to hide "NamePros" on it.

Adding BBB.org or buyer reviews is tricky because a lot of sellers want to remove the "NamePros" brand from their landers as much as possible.

Open to all suggestions from everyone. ❤

I'd like a Dan style lander as well - i'm not a fan of the current colors/style. Or a Sedo Lander 15 style. Or even a Dynadot style. Something white background with the areas in color rather than this very dark landing page. But clearly, that is below my interest in copy and functionality.

Here's an example of what Sedo adds to it's Lander #15... pretty generic. Perhaps something like this would give some trustworthiness? (we can change "free" to "easy" and/or "secure" since it may not always be free - e..g, Escrow allows us to make the buyer to pay transfer fees).

I'm generally not a huge fan of things that cannot be removed... so perhaps toggles on/off is the way to go. Of course the above is quite generic, so removing it is likely unnecessary for even the most picky. Maybe it's overkill - because perhaps this is the sort of stuff that can be added to the "extended description" area for sellers that want it. But I think this is the sort of thing that should sit near the form giving the buyer some feeling of security. Maybe there can be a toggle to show an Escrow logo for those who toggled Escrow to on?

Looking forward to others ideas/brainstorms to add trustworthiness to the page. I like the above, but some pretty sharp people on this thread... so I'm sure we'll get some solid ideas.

 

[Optimal Names]

I've been receiving a lot of inquiries and have had a few "Good news! A buyer is ready to pay your price of xxxx"

I love it. What is crazy to think about is that for years I've never had this many to handle.

Now, none of panned out thus far but still - this is night and day compared to elsewhere (for the last 12+ months the names were solely at Afternic).

This may be a "good" problem:
today I recevied a "Good news! A buyer is ready to pay your price of xxxxx", "Intent: Buy-now", a domain name
two days ago I received a "You've received an inquiry. You may reply to this message to contact the inquirer." (intent = inquire) for the same domain name.

I am very confident that the two leads are not associated with each other. Different parts of the country and very different businesses.

At first I thought they arent related BUT the first inquiry on Saturday was from a web design company. The BIN came from a furniture manufacturer and while they're not related my wife thinks MAYBE the web designer is working with the furniture company. She may be correct!

I would not be able to know that without the awesome lead intelligence offered by the NP landers!

Hoping either of them pan out! It would be my first NP Lander sale!

 

[NameGroove]

I'm guessing this is Efty: https://www.apex.io/ Nice and clean, light, crisp. NP landers are dark, depressing. Although personally if we had STR data, I wouldn't care if dark and depressing had higher STR. But it is my guess it doesn't since this lander looks more like Afternic, Sedo, and Dyna, all of whom I guess do lots of STR landing page testing. @Bravo Mod Team - would be great to have 2-3 landing page options as I'm sure you'll get as many opinions on look/feel as there are people in this thread

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

NP landers are dark

Yeah, at a minimum, we need to have a light option for it, or a Dan-like lander that would be the light option. Our designer is working on that.

Thanks for all of this great feedback!

With everyone's help, we'll figure out something that works.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Ever wondered how many inquiries and purchase requests have been received using NamePros Landers?

As of today, it's over 21,000!

That's a lot of leads and purchases.

To get the latest number, check the ID in the URL of the next inquiry that you receive. For example: namepros.com/parking/inquiry/21002/ means that's the 21,002nd one!

• Note: If this is your inquiry, only you can see it. Even us moderators cannot see that inquiry.

#ProTip

 

[NicTraders]

Ever wondered how many inquiries and purchase requests have been received using NamePros Landers?

As of today, it's over 21,000!

That's a lot of leads and purchases.

To get the latest number, check the ID in the URL of the next inquiry that you receive. For example: namepros.com/parking/inquiry/21002/ means that's the 21,002nd one!

• Note: If this is your inquiry, only you can see it. Even us moderators cannot see whose inquiry that is.

#ProTip

Do you have any idea of # of completed sales from those leads, or is that not possible to track?...

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Do you have any idea of # of completed sales from those leads, or is that not possible to track?...

It's not possible to track, (un)fortunately, unless the sale uses our Escrow.com integration or someone reports it.

 

[NicTraders]

It's not possible to track, (un)fortunately, unless the sale uses our Escrow.com integration or someone reports it.

Thanks. Can you say the number of sales via your Escrow.com integration?

 

[NicTraders]

But I think this is the sort of thing that should sit near the form giving the buyer some feeling of security. Maybe there can be a toggle to show an Escrow logo for those who toggled Escrow to on?

Even better, would be if the Escrow.com logo was turned on automatically when Escrow is the selected payment method. ...Admittedly, I haven't played with the landers yet, so I'm not sure if Escrow.com is selected as the payment method at time of listing (in which case this could be done), or if it's just selected after agreement by the buyer/seller.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Can you say the number of sales via your Escrow.com integration?

Only our developers have access to that account, but yeah, we can ask them to take a peek once they're less busy.

At the moment, their plates are overflowing with feature requests.

Caveat: We've heard about several big sales through Escrow.com that used our landers but not our Escrow.com integration, which is the case for all Escrow.com sales that occur from our default lander. The only sales that we'd be able to see are through our buy-now lander.

For privacy reasons, we'd only be able to share aggregate data, not specific domains or details.

 

[whalehunter]

I just wanted to thank the Team behind the namepros lander @Bravo Mod Team.

I've recently moved my entire portfolio of 1.4k domains few weeks ago after dan.com closure was announced.

I tried Afternic before, but it was immediately a no go relinquishing control over the negotiation. I don't trust their brokers.

For pro domainers, namepros lander is the perfect solution.

In particular, I like the Google Analytics integration. Having full access to my domain data is a game changer. I understand you're the only platform that offers that.

With dan.com closed, I really think you have a huge opportunity to get ahead in this market.

 

[DomainRecap]

I tried Afternic before, but it was immediately a no go relinquishing control over the negotiation. I don't trust their brokers.

It's not that I personally don't trust the brokers, it's that they're overwhelmed with Dan import listings and literally take days just to forward your Buy Price to the client.

The Afternic process is the definition of insanity - we all want to sell domains, while Afternic does everything possible to NOT sell your domains. In an era dominated by FOMO and instant gratification, Afternic models itself on a 1940's corner store run by a 90-year old guy who slowly shuffles around like he's in a Tim Conway skit.

I can say without reservation, that using Afternic as your primary marketplace will lose you both time and money.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I just wanted to thank the Team behind the namepros lander @Bravo Mod Team.

I've recently moved my entire portfolio of 1.4k domains few weeks ago

Thank you so much for your kind words and for joining us!

Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

We're really enjoying the process of building and supporting something new!
The forums were a monumental and fun challenge, but after so many years, became a bit monotonous.

For pro domainers, namepros lander is the perfect solution.
. . .
Having full access to my domain data is a game changer. I understand you're the only platform that offers that.

Absolutely agree!

 

[NameGroove]

I just wanted to thank the Team behind the namepros lander @Bravo Mod Team.

I've recently moved my entire portfolio of 1.4k domains few weeks ago after dan.com closure was announced.

I tried Afternic before, but it was immediately a no go relinquishing control over the negotiation. I don't trust their brokers.

For pro domainers, namepros lander is the perfect solution.

In particular, I like the Google Analytics integration. Having full access to my domain data is a game changer. I understand you're the only platform that offers that.

With dan.com closed, I really think you have a huge opportunity to get ahead in this market.

In case you're interested there are other platforms that offer it (Aftermarket.com landers have Google Analytics integration too). Crisp and clean landers as well.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

In case you're interested there are other platforms that offer it (Aftermarket.com landers have Google Analytics integration too). Crisp and clean landers as well.

Agreed, but none of them are free (or going to remain free).

NamePros Landers will always be free, guaranteed. Only we can/will do that at a high level and for the long term.

(Free of fees and free of commission.)

 

[NameGroove]

Agreed, but none of them are free or going to remain free. NamePros Landers will always be free, guaranteed. Only we can/will do that.

(Free of fees and free of commission.)

They are ALL free. Whether or not they remain that way, who can say. Bodis has been free for years, so not sure why you're saying this comment.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

They are ALL free. Whether or not they remain that way, who can say. Bodis has been free for years, so not sure why you're saying this comment.

We don't consider commission-based services to be free.

Here's a screenshot from Aftermarket's website today:

For the services that are free at launch or currently, we have seen reports that they all plan to move to commission-based fees. Time will be the ultimate judge of truth.

That said, there's nothing wrong with charging for these services. They'll be able to offer you more options and features than we can because they charge for it, and that's great, too.

Both options (free and paid) are useful so everyone can choose what works best for them.

 

[JB Lions]

For the services that are free at launch or currently, we have seen reports that they all plan to move to commission-based fees.

Which ones? Do you have links to those reports? Going to start a spreadsheet for myself so I can clearly see what everybody is charging.