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!

 

[Skyvisum]

@Bravo Mod Team , when I go to " find domain" settings ,can you just make it easy to search by extension,rather than domain.

Most times I like to search for only names in .com and want the result but I have to keep typing one word at a time .

Please fix this

 

[Optimal Names]

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

I am dreaming of sales.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

when I go to " find domain" settings ,can you just make it easy to search by extension,rather than domain.

We made a small search update that may unintentionally support this once it’s live. For example, it should allow you to type “.com” in the search box to see only .com domains.

Please try that next Friday, and let us know if it works how you want.

 

[Skyvisum]

We made a small search update that may unintentionally support this once it’s live. For example, it should allow you to type “.com” in the search box to see only .com domains.

Please try that next Friday, and let us know if it works how you want.

Thanks for the advance valentine's day gift .

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

For example, it should allow you to type “.com” in the search box to see only .com domains.

Just confirmed that this will work as described.

Thanks for the advance valentine's day gift .

 

[Future Sensors]

Without a doubt, you're the most romantic team.

 

[DN Universal]

Please try that next Friday, and let us know if it works how you want.

Will next Friday be the launch date for all the improvements?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Will next Friday be the launch date for all the improvements?

Not all of them just yet, but we’ll be able to release updates regularly again, which will allow us to quickly finalize a lot of the improvements that we’ve already built but have been stuck in the queue.

 

[Optimal Names]

Just confirmed that this will work as described.

Have I done something incorrectly? Cant seem to duplicate the ".com" only search...

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

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Have I done something incorrectly? Cant seem to duplicate the ".com" only search...

You did it correctly, but too soon.

It'll be available by Friday:

Please try that next Friday

 

[Optimal Names]

You did it correctly, but too soon.

It'll be available by Friday:

​

Ah, jumped the gun. Thanks!

 

[DomainRecap]

I have the Minimum Offer enabled in settings, but is there a way to enforce it?

I have two (cough) offers in my queue, one for $10 and the other for $0. How do I make sure I don't get any more of these?

 

[Andreas B.]

GoDaddy already inquired....?

 

[DomainRecap]

I have the Minimum Offer enabled in settings, but is there a way to enforce it?

I have two (cough) offers in my queue, one for $10 and the other for $0. How do I make sure I don't get any more of these?

@Bravo Mod Team

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I have the Minimum Offer enabled in settings, but is there a way to enforce it?

I have two (cough) offers in my queue, one for $10 and the other for $0. How do I make sure I don't get any more of these?

You can filter them out by using the "Delivered" filter: https://www.namepros.com/parking/inquiries?delivery=delivered

The minimum offer setting prevents them from being emailed ("Delivered") to you, but we log everything for you just in case you ever want to review inquiries that didn't meet your minimum offer.

Note: If you manually use our "Send to email" button on any of the below-min-offer inquiries, then they'll show up under "Delivered" after that.

 

[DomainRecap]

You can filter them out by using the "Delivered" filter: https://www.namepros.com/parking/inquiries?delivery=delivered

The minimum offer setting prevents them from being emailed ("Delivered") to you, but we log everything for you just in case you ever want to review inquiries that didn't meet your minimum offer.

Thanks for that, but I think I discovered a bug.

The $10 offer was not delivered, but the None ($0) offer was delivered, so this looks like a loophole that needs to be closed. If the Offer field is "None" then the system should read that as $0 and not have it Delivered.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

If the Offer field is "None" then the system should read that as $0 and not have it Delivered.

Yep, that's how it works.

If it was delivered, then it means at least one of the following:

1. The "Send to email" button was used on it.
2. "Send all inquiries immediately" is enabled. Check under your Profile settings.
3. There wasn't a minimum offer on the domain at that time of the inquiry.

You might want to visit the settings of that domain and double check what it shows under "Minimum offer."

 

[DomainRecap]

You might want to visit the settings of that domain and double check what it shows under "Minimum offer."

It displays: "≥ $1,000"

I'm really not understanding the purpose of the "Minimum Offer" field as it looks like it does nothing and if I ever ramp up my domain listings into the thousands, my Dashboard could easily get filled up with these useless Low Offer/No Offer "Inquiries".

I thought the Minimum Offer would limit these lowball, non-inquiries from even being received by the NP system, which is what I'm used to.

And on that note, is there any method of deleting these lowball offers?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I thought the Minimum Offer would limit these lowball, non-inquiries from even being received, which is what I'm used to.

That's what it does, unless you override it by enabling the "Send all inquiries immediately" setting.

For this domain, try testing it. You'll see that it works as you expect: you won't receive an email for any offers below that amount, even if the offer field is left blank.

Before testing it, make sure you didn't enable "Send all inquiries immediately" in your Profile settings. That setting is poorly named, but it means that all emails, including those below your minimum offer, will be sent to you. It was a feature that some members requested and we advised against.

Let us know how your test goes.

 

[DomainRecap]

That's what it does, unless you override it by enabling the "Send all inquiries immediately" setting.

I understand, but I'm talking "received" but as in "that it shows up in my dashboard at all".

Seriously, I am worried that if I toss 5K domains on NP, with no real dollar limits to the inquiries, my dashboard will quickly be inundated and overwhelmed with $10 and "No Offer" buyer responses. That I may not get these in email form will not detract from the mess it will create in the NP dashboard.

I remember when I first signed up at GD and didn't realize their default min bid was $20, and my GD seller area would blow up some days. So I quickly changed it to $500.