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!

 

[NicTraders]

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.

I think you mean Lander 2, flow #1...

 

[D Haynes]

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This would be freakin sweet awesome!

 

[NameGroove]

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I think you mean Lander 2, flow #1...

Good catch!. Sadly, can't edit any more.

This would be freakin sweet awesome!

I know, isn't that presentation amazing? It entices the buyer to buy direct - but doesn't force it and allows them to go to a marketplace if they prefer a "known" entity. I'm hoping @Bravo Mod Team incorporates into the BIN lander I'm requesting.

 

[freety85]

@Bravo Mod Team , in some registrars the NS cannot be changed, I guess due to the second nameserver format. Any plans to change it to ns2.namepros-dns.com?

This is from Netim:

 

[Future Sensors]

@Bravo Mod Team , in some registrars the NS cannot be changed, I guess due to the second nameserver format. Any plans to change it to ns2.namepros-dns.com?

What's the TLD?

Please try adding the domain to NPP first, and then change NS at the registrar.

 

[freety85]

What's the TLD?

Please try adding the domain to NPP first, and then change NS at the registrar.

thanks for the tip. I will have a look, it is an .so - at Dynadot for the same extension NS switched perfectly.

 

[Elad n]

Not sure if anyone asked for it, but is there an option for a simple lander with no buy now or make offer?

Something simple that doesnt even say the domain is available for sale?

Only

1) domain name
2) contact owner at email adress _________________

or

1) domain name
2) contact owner form - name+phone+email+message and have an option to add text next to the name like "serious inquires only"

 

[NameGroove]

Not sure if anyone asked for it, but is there an option for a simple lander with no buy now or make offer?

Something simple that doesnt even say the domain is available for sale?

Only

1) domain name
2) contact owner at email adress _________________

or

1) domain name
2) contact owner form - name+phone+email+message and have an option to add text next to the name like "serious inquires only"

If you are at Dynadot, they offer a free one page lander. Since you want no functionality, that lander would be quite easy to utilize.

 

[Elad n]

If you are at Dynadot, they offer a free one page lander. Since you want no functionality, that lander would be quite easy to utilize.

Im looking for simple solution that is not related to a registrar.
Would be easier to have more names at one place.

I have names in efty that im using only a simple lander like that and i want to move some names from there.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

is there an option for a simple lander with no buy now or make offer?

Our default lander is essentially that; it only asks them to enter their contact details:

It doesn't ask them to make an offer; it simply provides an optional field if they’d like to enter one.

Does that work, or do you need us to add an option to hide the offer field?

Keep in mind that every option we add like this must be maintained (expensive) and takes away from far more impactful features that we could be adding and maintaining.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

thanks for the tip. I will have a look, it is an .so - at Dynadot for the same extension NS switched perfectly.

It should work if you add the domains to your NamePros account first, and then set the name servers on those domains.

Please let us know if that works or which registrar has the issue since you mentioned it works at Dynadot.

Edited to note that the registrar is Netim as reported in a prior post. Internal ref #3382992.

 

[Elad n]

Our default lander is essentially that; it only asks them to enter their contact details:

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It doesn't ask them to make an offer; it simply provides an optional field if they’d like to enter one.

Does that work, or do you need us to add an option to hide the offer field?

Keep in mind that every option we add like this must be maintained (expensive) and takes away from far more impactful features that we could be adding and maintaining.

Would be better imo that it would say

"Contact the owner" and not "contact the seller"

Ans add the option to remove the "available for sale" and write something instead or nothing it all.

Basically an inquiry form.

Adding the price making it about the price while in some situation would be better to not enter the price talk from your side so you can shift to a conversation that is focused on value and not on price (at least from owner side)

 

[Mister Funsky]

Yes, the 'available for sale' could cause issues.

It would be nice if we could toggle that line ourselves. 'contact domain owner' or 'use the form to contact us', etc.

ADD: also it would be nice if in the title it said 'domain may be for sale' rather than 'for sale'.

 

[Skyvisum]

Would be better imo that it would say

"Contact the owner" and not "contact the seller"

Ans add the option to remove the "available for sale" and write something instead or nothing it all.

Basically an inquiry form.

Adding the price making it about the price while in some situation would be better to not enter the price talk from your side so you can shift to a conversation that is focused on value and not on price (at least from owner side)

@Bravo Mod Team ,
I really like these suggestions and think "contact owner " and sound less desperate.

Also option to remove or show "available for sale " .

Great suggestion by @Elad n

 

[domvault]

Instead of "Available for sale", above the domain name, can the text be changed to "This domain may be for sale" ?

and, instead of "Contact Seller", can the text be changed to "Contact Owner" ?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Would be better imo that it would say

"Contact the owner" and not "contact the seller"

Agreed, "owner" is better when that's the case.

"Seller" was chosen because brokers also use our service, and we need to use a word that represents both types of users.

Cc @Skyvisum @domvault @Mister Funsky

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Adding the price making it about the price while in some situation would be better to not enter the price talk from your side so you can shift to a conversation that is focused on value and not on price (at least from owner side)

Is this in regards to removing the "Offer" field from the page?

Just double checking.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Instead of "Available for sale", above the domain name, can the text be changed to "This domain may be for sale" ?

Is this for legal reasons (e.g., risk mitigation)? It's been discussed publicly by respected domain attorneys that adding "may be" does not have any real impact in that regard.

Edited to clarify that “in that regard” means that it won’t help to add it. As NameGroove pointed out, it could cause issues by adding it.

 

[Skyvisum]

Agreed, "owner" is better when that's the case.

"Seller" was chosen because brokers also use our service, and we need to use a word that represents both types of users.

Cc @Skyvisum @domvault @Mister Funsky

Maybe add an option to chose either contact owner or contact seller .

 

[Mister Funsky]

It would be nice if we could toggle that line ourselves. 'contact domain owner' or 'use the form to contact us', etc.

Agreed, "owner" is better when that's the case.

So, how about a toggle...let us (seller/owner/interested party) control the phrasing? ie 'to contact us, fill out the form'