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!

 

[marijuanadomain]

VIPs and Gold account holders can remove the branding. It's in the settings.

You have to pay to have that privilege

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Can you totally remove "Namepros" from the landing page?

Here's a link to those settings:

• https://www.namepros.com/parking/profile

Give it a try.

 

[Future Sensors]

Give it a try.

Always ready to lend a helping hand.

 

[Future Sensors]

 

[DomainRecap]

I've added a couple of test domains to use NP landers and it seems to work great. Pretty quick response times, the description fields are very useful, and I like the overall look, but I do have one feature request that may or may not be part of a future update:

The ability to change the default inner background (not the outer color) so as to give users a choice of different background images/patterns, or even better, to support a custom image. I sell a lot of .CA so something red or the ability to use a custom red image with a maple leaf (etc.) would be cool.

Other than that, I'm liking this system and will probably expand my usage over time.

 

[marijuanadomain]

VIPs and Gold account holders can remove the branding. It's in the settings.

Is there a way to know where the traffic is coming from?
Do the mods have the approve all the listings?
So you have to pay to upgrade to get my listing

 

[NorthernDomains]

Is there a way to know where the traffic is coming from?
Do the mods have the approve all the listings?
So you have to pay to upgrade to get my listing

You can use Google Analytics for traffic insights.

Domains are approved by using their assigned nameservers.

You do not have to pay to list your domains.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I've added a couple of test domains to use NP landers and it seems to work great. Pretty quick response times, the description fields are very useful, and I like the overall look

We're grateful to hear that!

The ability to change the default inner background (not the outer color) so as to give users a choice of different background images/patterns, or even better, to support a custom image. I sell a lot of .CA so something red or the ability to use a custom red image with a maple leaf (etc.) would be cool.

Like this?

Sneak peaks: #1 and #2.

I'm liking this system and will probably expand my usage over time.

Sounds good! Let us know if we can help in any way.

 

[DomainRecap]

Like this?

Yes, and like the other guy said in that thread, "Gimme, Gimme!"

More specifically, I am interested in changing my "default image" for all listings, rather than having to manually add a new one for each listing.

I'm thinking if I end up with a few thousand NP listings, it would be a real bugger to go into each and every one of them to change it. Just as it would be easier with 50-100 new listings just to have that default image auto-populate, like it does today, only with my custom image.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I am interested in changing my "default image" for all listings, rather than having to manually add a new one for each listing.

I'm thinking if I end up with a few thousand NP listings, it would be a real bugger to go into each and every one of them to change it. Just as it would be easier with 50-100 new listings just to have that default image auto-populate, like it does today, only with my custom image.

Absolutely! This feature is already available through the default “Expanded description” field under profile settings by adding an <img> tag to it: Learn more.

We’re also in the process of adding an option to upload images directly for convenience and easier usability. We’ll add an option to have a default uploaded image, too, inspired by your suggestion.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[DomainRecap]

Absolutely! This feature is already available through the default “Expanded description” field under profile settings by adding an [img] tag to it: Learn more.

We’re also in the process of adding an option to upload images directly for convenience and easier usability. We’ll add an option to have a default uploaded image, too, inspired by your suggestion.

Thanks for sharing!

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing and my comment was in response to the link you posted with the Coffee Cup image right below the name. I assumed that was a new feature not just manually-added HTML code to the Expanded Description field (which I use for text descriptions).

To be more clear, you see this "swirly pattern"? Well, I'd like to have the option of picking from a selection of new designs/colors to use as an inner background, as well as the option of using a custom default image:

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing . . . To be more clear, you see this "swirly pattern"?

Thanks for clarifying.

There are a lot of elements on the page, so let’s assign names to each one to make them easier to discuss:

1. Page background (the empty space behind the page’s tiles)
2. Header background, including the background of the domain name and the short description.
3. Image gallery (aka slider, reel, or carousel)
4. Content area, including the background of the expanded description, seller description, and the form.

In the example image, we have:

1. Page background: Deep chocolate brown (dark, gradient)
2. Header background: Reddish brown (least dark, gradient)
3. Image gallery: Coffee cup ️
4. Content area background: Dark warm brown (most dark, solid)

Choices for each (upcoming):

1. Page background: gradient or solid color; no image
2. Header background: gradient or solid color; or curated image from our collection
3. Image gallery: URLs to images or upload your own images
4. Content area background: Dark or light

To start, our curated header image options will be limited, but we’ll add more over time.

Let us know if there are any designs, patterns, or stock images that you’d like us to add for the header background.

 

[DomainRecap]

Let us know if there are any designs, patterns, or stock images that you’d like us to add for the header background.

That makes things a lot clearer, thank you. Unfortunately the Header background won't have an option for a custom image/pattern.

I'll have to see how a custom color Header background will work combined with a custom Image Gallery image to convey what I'd like to.

I also hope the colors options will feature a wider options of brighter colors like yellows, oranges, reds, etc. - or conversely, blacks and greys. Hex/HTML color code support would be perfect.

Thanks.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Unfortunately the Header background won't have an option for a custom image/pattern.

We choose them in advance in order to ensure that the domain name and accompanying text will still be legible.

Unfortunately, it’s really easy to choose an image that makes it difficult to read the text that appears on top of it, without realizing it. For example, it may look legible on desktop but not on mobile, or vice versa.

I'll have to see how a custom color Header background will work combined with a custom Image Gallery image to convey what I'd like to.

We hope that’ll work for you, but if not, just let us know what kind of image you’d like in the header background (e.g., a maple leaf), and we’ll figure out something for you.

I also hope the colors options will feature a wider options of brighter colors like yellows, oranges, reds, etc. - or conversely, blacks and greys.

Yep! All 360 hues will include a light, standard, and dark option. That’s a total of 1,080 colors, plus gray options (ranging from light to dark).

Examples in sneak peek #1.

 

[URL Stream]

We also know of some big sales that haven't been reported publicly (yet), including a $1 million sale from our buy-now button on a two-letter new gTLD. With 0% commission!

Successes like these keep us excited about building this service.

If this is public information can you share through what avenue the buyer landed on the NP lander?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

through what avenue the buyer landed on the NP lander?

Could you provide an example of what you mean?

 

[RapidNames.com]

adding pageviews / traffic chart (graph) would be a great feature to add

 

[URL Stream]

Could you provide an example of what you mean?

My apologies for not being clearer earlier.

During the discussion about whether any domains sold through NamePros landers, you mentioned a million-dollar sale. I was curious: how did the buyer arrive at the lander? Was it via a marketplace, type-in traffic to a personal landing page, or another source like a portfolio website, or something else?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Was it via a marketplace, type-in traffic to a personal landing page, or another source like a portfolio website, or something else?

Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know based on the data that we have, for a variety of reasons: major marketplaces link to domain pages within their marketplace instead of linking to the domain itself, most major browsers don’t send referrers anymore for privacy reasons, etc.

Most likely, though, it was a type-in visitor; we just don’t have a way to know why they typed it in. It’s possible that they saw it listed on a marketplace, at a registrar, or while using a domain tool, and then visited the domain (e.g., manually typed it into their browser).

The only way to know for sure would be to ask the buyer.

 

[Mister Funsky]

adding pageviews / traffic chart (graph) would be a great feature to add

Agreed. The new chart feature at Dynadot is a nice addition.