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]

Do you want sales or not?

Do you want 3rd parties picking your pocket or not?

Do you want to control your sales department or not?

Do you want to control your destiny or not?

What else could you possibly need to know?

Foolish and lazy or smart and wealthy?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1883170629832053186

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

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).

Coincidentally, just received this notification from Amazon:

 

[D Haynes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1883170629832053186

Link says page doesn't exist but I'm guessing I get the jist.

I'm not a big fan of that type of post.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Link says page doesn't exist but I'm guessing I get the jist.

His account is private, but he gave permission to repost earlier this month:

“While I'm not gonna open my Twitter doors to the outside world, I will allow my followers to repost any important post you believe will help as long as you give me credit.” —Rick Schwartz

 

[NameGroove]

Coincidentally, just received this notification from Amazon:

Show attachment 269759

Ha, you got me there. However, note this verbiage is used for retargeting and not the initial sale attempt. If you see it used in a shopping cart, I'll rescind my prior objection.

 

[Optimal Names]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1883170629832053186

Side note:
One thing I miss on twitter is Rick's posts. Wish he didnt go private.

 

[Optimal Names]

When I get that "Price accepted for <domain name>" email I no longer get excited. Having tried it myself, finally, on one of my own names, because of the latest issue with a lead/buyer, I have some questions about the flow that the lead sees:

I am asking questions because I have lost count as to how many people have clicked buy now on the previous screen. I've counted at in the 10s of thousands of dollars in "buy now" that go nowhere and these are leads who are marketing or c-level in the company that is interested in the domain name as well as, like yesterday, an average Jane who went through the entire process to confirm her email address, see the BIN price, and then clicked on the buy now to end up at the below screen only to stop there.

When I asked her if she had questions or needed assistance with escrow.com or paypal she replied "This is not for sale". Well, that baffled me. Made me wonder if she is truly confused and perhaps are the others confused?

This is not the same as some who think they're going to a product ot service. These are leads who click buy now and from my experience trying it there is no one forcing me to keep going. You have to explicitly want to continue after seeing the price. Right?

So why am I getting so many dead-end buy it now leads? I am wondering if there is a disconnect somewhere in the flow?

My questions are:
1) can we move the email seller button to the last option of buttons before "Back"? I think emailing me at this point (after clicking buy now) is not necessary. They should be able to complete the purchase. It would be awesome if they can click buy now and go right to the escrow.com with all the data filled in. I do not know if clicking pay with escrow.com does that but I may try it.

For multiple options I am not sure what to do. Perhaps one can be the default and it just sets up that transaction for them. All they need to do is pull their checkbook out and make the payment.

I am open to any and all discussion and not tied to my ideas, I am wondering what others think and if they've had the same issue with BIN going nowhere. I do know its part of the life of domaining but my idea is what if we can make it so simple they wont stall? Its not entrapment because no one held a gun to their head to click that Buy Now button so accidental clicking should be almost zero.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

an average Jane who went through the entire process to confirm her email address, see the BIN price, and then clicked on the buy now to end up at the below screen only to stop there.

It is surprising how often this happens when visitors think they are buying a product or service that has a similar domain name.

When I asked her if she had questions or needed assistance with escrow.com or paypal she replied "This is not for sale". Well, that baffled me. Made me wonder if she is truly confused and perhaps are the others confused?

My guess is that her company has a similar domain to yours, and she thought you were asking to buy it, without realizing that the domain name in the subject was slightly different than hers.

It would be awesome if they can click buy now and go right to the escrow.com with all the data filled in. I do not know if clicking pay with escrow.com does that but I may try it.

It does; you can test it on nuggies.ninja.

1) can we move the email seller button to the last option of buttons before "Back"?

Absolutely; that makes more sense. We'll do that. Thanks!

When I get that "Price accepted for <domain name>" email I no longer get excited.

We'll bring back that excitement once we add an option to have the buyer confirm their interest in buying a domain before getting to that stage. We should be able to work on that soon. The pieces are all coming together.

Thanks for sharing this.

 

[DN_Hunter]

Has any progress been made on BULK updates and/or portfolio downloads? It seems like months ago this was brought up and we were told it was coming soon...

 

[Optimal Names]

It is surprising how often this happens when visitors think they are buying a product or service that has a similar domain name.


My guess is that her company has a similar domain to yours, and she thought you were asking to buy it, without realizing that the domain name in the subject was slightly different than hers.


It does; you can test it on nuggies.ninja.


Absolutely; that makes more sense. We'll do that. Thanks!


We'll bring back that excitement once we add an option to have the buyer confirm their interest in buying a domain before getting to that stage. We should be able to work on that soon. The pieces are all coming together.

Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Has any progress been made on BULK updates and/or portfolio downloads?

Yep, it's almost ready.

It turned into a massive project of us having to completely rewrite our options, which are currently being tested on our staging server and will hopefully be available to everyone very soon.

We could have made 100+ other improvements during that time, but this needed to be done for the future stability of the service. Fortunately, it's almost all behind us and then we can get back to releasing new features more often.

We appreciate your continued interest and patience.

 

[Future Sensors]

You are in our prayers.

 

[Optimal Names]

Yep, it's almost ready.

It turned into a massive project of us having to completely rewrite our options, which are currently being tested on our staging server and will hopefully be available to everyone very soon.

We could have built 100+ other features during that time, but this needed to be done for the future stability of the service. Fortunately, it's almost all behind us and then we can get back to releasing new features more often.

We appreciate your continued interest and patience.

Looking forward to the changes with great enthusiasm!

 

[Purchased]

Fantastic work on these landers

Is there a way to let any potential buyer know if an email response has been received?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Fantastic work on these landers

We appreciate it.

Is there a way to let any potential buyer know if an email response has been received?

Is this what you had in mind, or something else?

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 "Mark as Unreachable" button.​

 

[Purchased]

Thanks, that's what I had in mind, how do we access this feature please?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Thanks, that's what I had in mind, how do we access this feature please?

It’s on the inquiry page, which can be accessed by the “View inquiry” button in the email or through the Inquiries page: https://www.namepros.com/parking/inquiries

It’s at the top of the page that shows the buyer’s estimated location, income, etc.

 

[Purchased]

Thank you!

 

[Skyvisum]

@Bravo Mod Team ,please launch the new lander and continue tweaking to add the bulk and other features. I am tired of waiting

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

please launch the new lander and continue tweaking to add the bulk and other features.

February is going to be the month that dreams come true!