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]

I know. So let's say you're willing to offer a 10% discount, if asked. By setting 90% as the setting the buyer sees $10,000 BIN and $9,000 make offer min. If I'm the buyer and see this, I'm never paying $10k. You've anchored me to $9k. If you show $10k BIN and then show "contact us", buyers may contact me to ask what I can do. No anchor has been set. I can respond, well, if you can buy this week, I will sell for $9k. Here is the payment link. This is a one week deal. No anchoring - just an urgent call to action.

Make Offer with any minimum - anchors the buyer to a number. That is the problem

That makes sense. I'm sure NP can get this done quickly.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

every time I go to modify the short description, it removes the other modifications I previously made (e.g., it removes the BIN option that was previously added). I have to re-do all the work I did previously.

We are not able to reproduce this, and no one else has reported it.

Can you please provide more details of your exact process that causes this to occur?

Thanks.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

NP pooh poohs them

Not at all, and we apologize for it coming across that way.

Our opinion is described perfectly by @NicTraders in the following post: https://www.namepros.com/threads/na...ntegration-and-much-more.1324080/post-9270886

Couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Please do not show GD on your page

We would only offer it as an option, never force it.

this is better than Make Offer imho. Because Make Offer makes it sound like someone can make the min offer and it'll be considered.

Our default lander doesn't have a "make offer" option. Instead, it shows a field for an offer if the buyer wants to enter one. This is an important distinction between asking for an offer and providing a convenient way for one to be submitted if the buyer chooses. If a minimum offer is set and their offer is below that, then they'll be presented with an "Increase your offer" page.

For our priced lander, the offer option on the buy-now page will soon have a setting to remove it.

the buyer sees $10,000 BIN and $9,000 make offer min

Our landers don't show the minimum offer until the buyer has made 1-2 blind offers first.

As i have noticed,not everyone is comfortable having a conversation with a buyer .They just want buyer to go straight to bin or send a concrete offer close to their asking price.

Our minimum offer feature can be a useful tool to help with that.

Make Offer makes it sound like someone can make the min offer and it'll be considered. Contact Owner next to the BIN buttons lends itself to a slight negotiation

This is a good point. It has taken me years to come around to this thinking.

We're adding an always-present "Contact seller" button and a setting to hide the offer option on buy-now pages.

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Lots of great discussion in this thread; we're enjoying it!

 

[NicTraders]

I know. So let's say you're willing to offer a 10% discount, if asked. By setting 90% as the setting the buyer sees $10,000 BIN and $9,000 make offer min. If I'm the buyer and see this, I'm never paying $10k. You've anchored me to $9k. If you show $10k BIN and then show "contact us", buyers may contact me to ask what I can do. No anchor has been set. I can respond, well, if you can buy this week, I will sell for $9k. Here is the payment link. This is a one week deal. No anchoring - just an urgent call to action.

Make Offer with any minimum - anchors the buyer to a number. That is the problem

I know there are certainly people who think that way (and I am possibly one of them)! But there are also plenty of people who don't. I think of a particular domain that I have set with a $5k min offer. It is worth a lot more than that but I set it ages ago when I just wanted to see all the possible offers coming in and have never got around to increasing it. Anyway, I have had multiple offers starting at $10k, and some of those offers have had no trouble getting up to $25k-$30k. Clearly they saw the value in the domain and didn't care at all that they could have started @ $5k. I've also had numerous domains at Dan (RIP) with a min offer of $100 and have received starting offers of $1,000+. So, the anchor might be real for some, but for many it's not a thing...

 

[NameGroove]

I know there are certainly people who think that way (and I am possibly one of them)! But there are also plenty of people who don't. I think of a particular domain that I have set with a $5k min offer. It is worth a lot more than that but I set it ages ago when I just wanted to see all the possible offers coming in and have never got around to increasing it. Anyway, I have had multiple offers starting at $10k, and some of those offers have had no trouble getting up to $25k-$30k. Clearly they saw the value in the domain and didn't care at all that they could have started @ $5k. I've also had numerous domains at Dan (RIP) with a min offer of $100 and have received starting offers of $1,000+. So, the anchor might be real for some, but for many it's not a thing...

Thanks for the data point. I'm shocked people would start materially higher than a min MO price. But data is data, so it is obvious people are willing to start higher. Cleary I have overestimated the sales ability of the buyers

 

[DN_Hunter]

Has the BULK functionality made any progress? Would love the ability to download my entire domain list. And also upload a file to add/remove BIN, MIN, etc...

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Has the BULK functionality made any progress? Would love the ability to download my entire domain list. And also upload a file to add/remove BIN, MIN, etc...

Working on it as we speak.

 

[NicTraders]

Thanks for the data point. I'm shocked people would start materially higher than a min MO price. But data is data, so it is obvious people are willing to start higher. Cleary I have overestimated the sales ability of the buyers

Yeah, I must admit it always surprised me. I guess it relates to how badly someone wanted a domain, and the thought that they might not get it.

When I first set up on Dan years ago, I put everything on MO as I didn't have my portfolio priced at the time. Time has always been short for domaining and I never ever got around to changing it. Since then, I have priced everything in my spreadsheet but was slack and never got to do that on Dan! (Not a strategy I recommend.) Anyway, it has shown me over the years that some people will offer well above the min offer, but probably the majority will offer around the min offer or a bit over. Some of those are happy to negotiate up (until you reach whatever point they have in their mind), but others will ghost you as soon as you counter or decline an offer. I have often declined offers of $100 - $400, have never heard back from the buyer and I never followed them up. To me, it showed me they weren't serious.

With that said, I repeat, it's not a strategy I recommend. I am certain I have left many sales on the table over the years. Several marketplaces have said that they get better sell-through where domains have a BIN. I am sure now that this would be true (so long as the BIN is reasonable). Anyway, the demise of Dan is a blessing in disguise for me as I'll finally get into gear and put a BIN on all my domains. For my most valuable I might put a BIN+MO as I still like to see what interest is around, but I reckon for 90% it'll be BIN Only. Nice and easy to manage.

 

[Future Sensors]

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[Future Sensors]

 

[L3af]

Yeah, I must admit it always surprised me. I guess it relates to how badly someone wanted a domain, and the thought that they might not get it.

When I first set up on Dan years ago, I put everything on MO as I didn't have my portfolio priced at the time. Time has always been short for domaining and I never ever got around to changing it. Since then, I have priced everything in my spreadsheet but was slack and never got to do that on Dan! (Not a strategy I recommend.) Anyway, it has shown me over the years that some people will offer well above the min offer, but probably the majority will offer around the min offer or a bit over. Some of those are happy to negotiate up (until you reach whatever point they have in their mind), but others will ghost you as soon as you counter or decline an offer. I have often declined offers of $100 - $400, have never heard back from the buyer and I never followed them up. To me, it showed me they weren't serious.

With that said, I repeat, it's not a strategy I recommend. I am certain I have left many sales on the table over the years. Several marketplaces have said that they get better sell-through where domains have a BIN. I am sure now that this would be true (so long as the BIN is reasonable). Anyway, the demise of Dan is a blessing in disguise for me as I'll finally get into gear and put a BIN on all my domains. For my most valuable I might put a BIN+MO as I still like to see what interest is around, but I reckon for 90% it'll be BIN Only. Nice and easy to manage.

Personally for me (right now) I have everything set to make offer on the lander but have a BIN at the registry.

 

[DN Universal]

Im not sure if this was mentioned. Please add commas to the price on the "Landers Page". Currently the commas in the price are only visible while viewing the "Parking Dashboard" and Domain Name section. Adding commas to the price on the "Lander Page" will make the numbers easier to read and understand. Thanks.

 

[NameGroove]

@Bravo Mod Team what is the eta of the new dan style landers?

Aftermarket is down, CEO is gone (quit or ousted) but either way - I suddenly find myself in need of an alternate lander. Since I am switching anyway, if your Dan style landers are coming very soon - I may use NP landers.

 

[Optimal Names]

I received an offer of $555 for a domain which has a minimum of $7,495. Email was not confirmed and I cant find any evidence that it exists so I wont be responding, however, just curious...... is the lead told that the minimum is $7,495 or are they told their offer is lower than the minimum but they're not aware of the exact number?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Im not sure if this was mentioned. Please add commas to the price on the "Landers Page". Currently the commas in the price are only visible while viewing the "Parking Dashboard" and Domain Name section. Adding commas to the price on the "Lander Page" will make the numbers easier to read and understand. Thanks.

Good catch; will do!

if your Dan style landers are coming very soon - I may use NP landers.

Very soon, indeed.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I received an offer of $555 for a domain which has a minimum of $7,495. Email was not confirmed and I cant find any evidence that it exists so I wont be responding, however, just curious...... is the lead told that the minimum is $7,495 or are they told their offer is lower than the minimum but they're not aware of the exact number?

In this scenario, the latter; they are not aware of your minimum offer.

 

[NameGroove]

@Bravo Mod Team

1- Are there any plans to add alternate payment methods such as Atom Pay?
https://helpdesk.atom.com/en/articles/9554830-how-to-use-atompay-service
I would like to offer customers more than one way to pay (currently I only see Escrow).

2- I have make offer disabled (and as such have a BIN and start conversation only lander). Yet after the user verifies their email (which I really would like to remove altogether), they are shown a page that shows make offer. Is there a way to remove this? See screenshot below. However, what I'd really like is shown in #3 below

3- Is there any way to remove the data collection boxes? A toggle that will allow me to remove them (I realize your landers were implemented initially as "price request" landers and for that purpose they are excellent!). Due to feedback (including mine) you've added BIN, but the lander hasn't really been optimized as a BIN lander. It's sort of a modified "price request" lander that has BIN on it. This leaves numerous hurdle points where someone can lose a buyer. I'd much prefer a few BIN buttons (Escrow, Atom Pay, Marketplace (GD/Sedo), and then let the buyer enter their details at whichever payment site they choose. There can be a "start conversation" button where they would supply their info if they so choose (e.g., if they want to negotiate). But unless they go that route - I'd rather not force them into giving me any info. It would look something like one of these:

or

You can see how the above offer button options for the buyer - Escrow, Atom Pay, GoDaddy, etc. In this way a user gets to the lander... see the name is for sale - and has options to buy direct, buy from a marketplace, or contact/start a convo. All this would happen without data collection or email verification (unless they want to provide via that button).

I do understand this is different than your original Price Request lander. This is a BIN lander. Perhaps you have no plans to build or serve this market. Which is totally fine. But it seems to me it'd be a great 2nd lander (we could choose from 2 types). Request Price landers in line with what you have now... or a BIN lander similar to what I've shown above.

I also realize you're coming out with a new clean/crisp lander shortly. Clean and crisp will be wonderful! But if it's still price request +BIN flow... it will only serve the needs of some, not all, of the domainers.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

@NameGroove,

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. We’d really like to find a way to serve this need while still being able to connect the buyer and the seller. Any suggestions?

Otherwise, there will be situations where the seller doesn’t know that a buyer clicked the buy button, the buyer got distracted, and the buyer never returned to pay for their (impulse) purchase = lost opportunity.

With our current system, the seller is notified immediately and can begin nurturing the sale, e.g., “Need help completing your order? Have questions? We’re here for you!” or “Still thinking about it? Here’s a special offer.”

 

[NameGroove]

@NameGroove,

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. We’d really like to find a way to serve this need while still being able to connect the buyer and the seller. Any suggestions?

Otherwise, there will be situations where the seller doesn’t know that a buyer clicked the buy button, the buyer got distracted, and the buyer never returned to pay for their (impulse) purchase = lost opportunity.

With our current system, the seller is notified immediately and can begin nurturing the sale, e.g., “Need help completing your order? Have questions? We’re here for you!” or “Still thinking about it? Here’s a special offer.”

Re #1 & #2 - excellent!

Re #3. I understand your perspective (and the reason these landers exist) was to capture emails. The initial rollout was to not show any price - enticing a buyer to provide their email to see it. This gives domainers the ability to re-market or contact the buyer. On the surface it fills a need.

However, there is another segment of domainers (me for example) that do not want this functionality and prefer not to be forced to utilize it. I prefer a toggle choice. Let those who want it toggle it on - and those that do not toggle it off. Or better yet, create 2 styles of landers (probably this is a better option as the flow will get messy otherwise).

Lander 1: Similar to what you have now. A request price lander (with or without a BIN price) that forces the buyer to enter their name and email and confirm their email before proceeding anywhere). I find some of the copy and flow confusing, but that can be rectified.

Lander 2: A BIN only lander (that includes an option to contact seller). This buyer can either click "buy now" on myriad buttons toggled on by the seller (Escrow, AtomPay, GoDaddy, Sedo, etc). OR they can choose flow #2 - which allows them to enter their name/email and initiate a conversation. The "or" is one of the key differences. I don't even think the data capture fields should show unless/until the buyer clicks the "start conversation" button. They should be hidden and "open" when that button is clicked. This leaves the page clean looking and doesn't distract.

I understand completely that if they choose Lander 1, flow #1 (the BIN option) the domainer will not capture the buyers email and if they buyer drops out - the domainer will never know and have no way to contact.

Domainers who are concerned about this should choose to utilize Lander #1. However, I am unconcerned about this. I want the cleanest, shortest flow to the cart. Allow the buyer to enter their details in whatever cart they choose (escrow, atompay, godaddy, etc). If they drop out, they drop out (although it should be noted that Escrow captures data and provides it if they initiate the purchase but don't complete payment). Nevertheless, even if they didn't- the domainer who chooses lander #2 is aware this is a BIN lander and they are trading speed to cart vs data capture.

Let me put this another way. You believe some will drop out at the cart. I believe some will drop out at the email collection stage which on lander 1 is pre-cart. I further believe just seeing a page full of 4 data capture fields on the lander will result in drop out.

It may be these %'s are the same and STRs will be identical. Of course more likely one of the flows will result in a higher dropout %. Currently we do not know which has a higher STR (and each of us believes their flow is the best). I am simply asking for the choice (provide 2 landers, one BIN focused, the other Price Request focused). Ultimately the same data is captured, it's just a matter of when (and the when is key).

Please note this is actually what I did for a living. I set up and marketed landing pages for subscription companies, and we learned through years of research via multivariate testing the shortest path to Buy now (credit card entry in our world) was optimal. I'm leaning on this experience to move the buyer to the cart as fast as possible (while also providing them the info required prior to make a buy now decision, eg., price, fast delivery, secure transfer, etc.).

Now once again, I realize your lander was set up solely to fix a problem of buyers who got distracted and thus you designed it to capture emails as early as possible. And Lander 1 attempts to remedy this issue. However, your lander could have lower STRs vs a BIN lander described above. You might think you're solving a problem but actually could be creating another one (that of losing people who would've continued down a buy now process and provided their email later but drop out when asked for their info too early or when shown myriad data capture fields too early). Without A/B testing we actually cannot know. Since we can't properly a/b test (without a large seller with >20,000 names splitting his folio in 2 on these 2 landers), I'm suggesting to create the 2 landers and allow domainers to choose which one meets their needs. It should be noted I'm simplifying the test buckets since multivariate testing would be significantly better than a/b splits anyway. For example, button color does lift conversions. Font, design, keywords, etc. all have an effect. But clearly you aren't set up to test in this fashion so we just have to work with what we've got.

If this is something you prefer not to do, it's obviously totally fine. The competing landers out there lean BIN so your Price Request Lander 1 serves an unmet need. But you asked me some pages back what you could do so I'd use your landers - and this is the type I want to utilize for the reasons described herein. I do hope you'll create this second lander. The past few days have proven to me that working with NP would be optimal vs the amateurs who are currently offering free landing pages (I'm looking at you Aftermarket, Bodis, and DN.com). While others may pop up - NP seems more proactive and responsive than the others so to the extent they can serve the BIN market as described herein, I figured it worthy to describe Lander 2 in detail.

EDIT: if we could get the flow right, we could perhaps sneak in email capture just pre buy now (but solely email, not 4 giant data capture fields) so domainers could remarket. But we'd have to think carefully about when and where to capture and keep it minimally intrusive.

 

[Future Sensors]

BIN only lander

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