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]

Is there any way to remove or modify this ridiculous verbiage ("Just One Available")?

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With our next update, it’ll say, “Make it yours today.”

The phrase “Just one available” was chosen quickly to release the feature fast and get feedback on it.

Do you like “Make it yours today” better? We can change it if not.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I realize directed to someone else, but if I could weigh in I like the phrase make it yours today, a call to action and implies the transaction process will be speedy.

Bob

Do you like “Make it yours today” better? We can change it if not.

 

[NameGroove]

With our next update, it’ll say, “Make it yours today.”

The phrase “Just one available” was chosen quickly to release the feature fast and get feedback on it.

Do you like “Make it yours today” better? We can change it if not.

Personally, no I still do not like it. However, I see Bob does. This brings up the point that such copy should be customizable.

However, if it cannot be, I vote a strong no.
I prefer:
1- Nothing (the less copy, the better) - the copy is already underneath anyway (Buy Now or Make Offer, etc). Simply allow that to be the top section (Buy Now) and move "Choose an option and enter your contact details" underneath the two options (and perhaps add the word above as in; "Choose an option above and..."
2- Buy Now (used by GoDaddy)
3- Buy Domain (used by Sedo)
4- Purchase Domain (used by Atom)

I do not like copy that is 4 words - it is lengthy and is not how people talk (no e-commerce store or human would say Make it Yours Today as buy now language).

Thinking about this more... I'd add this above or next to the Buy Now section. Both GoDaddy and Atom use it - and have A/B tested it - and it works

 

[Optimal Names]

Personally, no I still do not like it. However, I see Bob does. This brings up the point that such copy should be customizable.

However, if it cannot be, I vote a strong no.
I prefer:
1- Nothing (the less copy, the better) - the copy is already underneath anyway (Buy Now or Make Offer, etc). Simply allow that to be the top section (Buy Now) and move "Choose an option and enter your contact details" underneath the two options (and perhaps add the word above as in; "Choose an option above and..."
2- Buy Now (used by GoDaddy)
3- Buy Domain (used by Sedo)
4- Purchase Domain (used by Atom)

I do not like copy that is 4 words - it is lengthy and is not how people talk (no e-commerce store or human would say Make it Yours Today as buy now language).

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Thinking about this more... I'd add this above or next to the Buy Now section. Both GoDaddy and Atom use it - and have A/B tested it - and it works

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You make good points.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Personally, no I still do not like it. However, I see Bob does. This brings up the point that such copy should be customizable.

However, if it cannot be, I vote a strong no.
I prefer:
1- Nothing (the less copy, the better) - the copy is already underneath anyway (Buy Now or Make Offer, etc). Simply allow that to be the top section (Buy Now) and move "Choose an option and enter your contact details" underneath the two options (and perhaps add the word above as in; "Choose an option above and..."
2- Buy Now (used by GoDaddy)
3- Buy Domain (used by Sedo)
4- Purchase Domain (used by Atom)

I do not like copy that is 4 words - it is lengthy and is not how people talk (no e-commerce store or human would say Make it Yours Today as buy now language).

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Thinking about this more... I'd add this above or next to the Buy Now section. Both GoDaddy and Atom use it - and have A/B tested it - and it works

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Thank you, as always, for your very helpful and thoughtful feedback.

We did try removing that text in the past, and it looked unbalanced:

Perhaps we can fix that balancing issue with your new suggestion of adding the "Verified Domain" text there.

We'll play around with it some more.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Here are the three variations for comparison:

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Really like the look of these. Thanks to all doing the hard work.

Here are the three variations for comparison:

I prefer the top one slightly, but don't feel too strongly between these.

I agree that a verified domain icon is nice to have on them.

-Bob

 

[alop]

Ya removing that make it your today is guuuud but you coulda still kept 'choose an option and enter your contact details' money

 

[NameGroove]

Thank you, as always, for your very helpful and thoughtful feedback.

We did try removing that text in the past, and it looked unbalanced:

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Perhaps we can fix that balancing issue with your new suggestion of adding the "Verified Domain" text there.

We'll play around with it some more.

You've already got "Available for Purchase" on the left hand side, "Make it Yours Today" on the right and then "Buy Now" below. It's overkill.

However, I understand what you mean by unbalanced. The copy (Make It Yours Today) was prominent and when removed, it looks less balanced. However, an alternative fix isn't to just remove the copy and leave the 2 buttons as is - but rather to increase the font and/or bold the Buy Now language. It is Buy Now that should have prominence on a BIN lander. Make it Yours Today (or Just One Available) or any other language is simply redundant and unneeded additional copy (imo).

In the spirit of less is more; I'd also hope we're able to remove/customize the section that includes the placeholder copy about "southern france".

On another note - these landers are starting to look much better (vs the drab landers that exist today). So thank you!

 

[DomainRecap]

I would like to add a tidbit of advice.

When creating the 'Call to Action" on a sales lander, it is preferable to clearly state exactly WHAT you are buying.

I am constantly getting offers from people who think they are placing an order with a company (such as a product, property, service, etc.) that uses a similar word, place, name, etc. in their business name as the domain I am selling.

For example, let's say there is a company called Wellington Management that someone is trying to locate and I'm selling the domain Wellington.ca and then they (wrongly) assume that's the domain the company uses (this happens a LOT). If you do not have "DOMAIN" in the action phrase then it can lead to serious confusion as to what the offer is for and exactly what you are selling, especially among new citizens, which we've got a ton of.

So instead of "it" being used everywhere, I would suggest including "Domain" or "This Domain" somewhere in there to ensure people don't mistakenly think they're putting in an offer on a rental apartment. And this "rental offer" happens to me consistently with a few word and surname domains, that are apparently similar to some property management companies.

And yes, I know, automatically typing in word or name domains is a stupid thing for people to do, but stupid people are pulling stupid crap all day long if you let them.

Think about it from their (albeit skewed) POV.

Someone calls Marigold Property Management about an apartment and are advised to send their offer in through the website when they've decided on an amount. So they mistakenly think the company uses Marigold.ca (which hypothetically could be for sale on NP) and after the page loads they see:

Make It Yours Today!

Make Offer _$________________

 

[NameGroove]

I would like to add a tidbit of advice.

When creating the 'Call to Action" on a sales lander, it is preferable to clearly state exactly WHAT you are buying.

I am constantly getting offers from people who think they are placing an order with a company (such as a product, property, service, etc.) that uses a similar word, place, name, etc. in their business name as the domain I am selling.

For example, let's say there is a company called Wellington Management that someone is trying to locate and I'm selling the domain Wellington.ca and then they (wrongly) assume that's the domain the company uses (this happens a LOT). If you do not have "DOMAIN" in the action phrase then it can lead to serious confusion as to what the offer is for and exactly what you are selling, especially among new citizens, which we've got a ton of.

So instead of "it" being used everywhere, I would suggest including "Domain" or "This Domain" somewhere in there to ensure people don't mistakenly think they're putting in an offer on a rental apartment. And this "rental offer" happens to me consistently with a few word and surname domains, that are apparently similar to some property management companies.

And yes, I know, typing in word or name domains is a stupid thing for people to do, but stupid people are pulling stupid crap all day long if you let them.

Think about it from their (albeit skewed) POV.

Someone calls Marigold Property Management about an apartment and are advised to send their offer in through the website when they've decided on an amount. So they mistakenly think the company uses Marigold.ca (which hypothetically could be for sale on NP) and after the page loads they see:

Make It Yours Today!

Make Offer _$________________

Slap a BIN in there and problem solved!

But seriously... that's probably partially why "Buy Domain" is used by Sedo and "Purchase Domain" is used by Atom. Although it should be noted the largest of all (GoDaddy) uses Buy Now.

I think Buy Now solves your problem, although that would only be for BIN landers obv.

 

[DomainRecap]

But seriously... that's probably partially why "Buy Domain" is used by Sedo and "Purchase Domain" is used by Atom. Although it should be noted the largest of all (GoDaddy) uses Buy Now.

I think Buy Now solves your problem, although that would only be for BIN landers obv.

Nope, stupid people would just be hitting the BIN with rental prices being what they are in Canada.

"Buy Domain" and "Purchase Domain" are crystal clear, but just mentioning exactly what type of product you're selling somewhere on the lander should be a basic minimum to selling anything online.

We look at "Make It Yours Today" + the Title and it makes sense, but the Average Joe has no freaking clue what "it" is or what the hell's going on.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'd also hope we're able to remove/customize the section that includes the placeholder copy about "southern france".

Yep, that's the optional "seller description" area.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I am constantly getting offers from people who think they are placing an order with a company (such as a product, property, service, etc.) that uses a similar word, place, name, etc. in their business name as the domain I am selling.

Agreed, we need to make that more clear.

In the meantime, many sellers have been using the custom description areas to make that clear, which can appear right below the domain name.

 

[Elad n]

Are we having price request without showing the price as well?

So we get a lead requesting a price and start to chat?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Are we having price request without showing the price as well?

So we get a lead requesting a price and start to chat?

Our default lander for unpriced domains serves this purpose very well. You can even add “Price Upon Request” in the description area.

Do you just want to hide the “Offer” box from that lander? I believe our devs were discussing that as an upcoming option.

 

[domvault]

Our default lander for unpriced domains serves this purpose very well. You can even add “Price Upon Request” in the description area.

Do you just want to hide the “Offer” box from that lander? I believe our devs were discussing that as an upcoming option.

yeah just hide the offer box, and let them send their email and name to start the conversation, we can take the conversation from there on, that is all we want.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Here are the three variations for comparison:

Version #1 without the "by continuing you agree, etc" line.

 

[SixFigures.ltd]

Any plans to blacklist disposable email addresses from inquiring?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Any plans to blacklist disposable email addresses from inquiring?

Similar to minimum offers, we'll add more options that sellers can require of inquirers, such as non-disposable email addresses, non-free email addresses, the reason for their inquiry, etc.