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!

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Thats stylin. I need to get some shirts and pants that colour

 

[NameGroove]

@Bravo Mod Team So we are allowed to remove all NamePros branding. So a buyer, when getting to our landers has never heard of NamePros. yet - when they click through to buy via Escrow it shows

So now they are shown "NamePros" again. But they don't know who NamePros is (nor should they). It just causes confusion. Can this be removed?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

So now they are shown "NamePros"

Sure, we can look into whether Escrow.com offers us an option in their API to remove that.

Out of curiosity, why do you think a recommendation on that page is a downside?

NamePros has notable recommendations on many industry websites, including Dynadot, NameBio, etc. They all have "Recommended by NamePros" on their home pages.

It's intended to provide value for those who know our brand. For those who don't, they usually just glance over it.

We always appreciate your feedback.


P.S. StraightToCheckout.com is coming soon thanks to you.

 

[NameGroove]

Sure, we can look into whether Escrow.com offers us an option in their API to remove that.

Out of curiosity, why do you think a recommendation on that page is a downside?

NamePros has notable recommendations on many industry websites, including Dynadot, NameBio, etc. They all have "Recommended by NamePros" on their home pages.

It's intended to provide value for those who know our brand. For those who don't, they usually just glance over it.

We always appreciate your feedback.


P.S. StraightToCheckout.com is coming soon thanks to you.

It's twofold - first, I've removed all NamePros branding. So it is weird when going from a domain lander over to a 3rd party company Escrow) that the buyer may already not be aware of - only to see that 3rd party is recommended by another company they never heard of. This isn't the sort of stuff that instills confidence.

Second, NameBio is an industry website. We are not selling to industry insiders - we're selling to businesses and they likely know GoDaddy and that's it. Now I do see that Dynadot, on the very bottom of it's page shows "recommended by" and then shows Namepros and Domaining. The logos are buried at the very bottom and I'd guess 99.9% of people never saw them. Personally - I'm surprised they show those 2 logos at this point in their lifecycle. But I suppose they do no harm way down there. You can see they promote their TrustPilot rating much further up the page alongside the fact that they have 8 million domains under management and over 1 million customers (much better metrics to earn trust from the avg small business to)

Meanwhile, on the Escrow page, NP is front and center. This is no knock against NP. NP is a wonderful forum for domainers. But for the 38.5 million small businesses who we're selling to, NP is a complete unknown. And Escrow.com can't use TrustPilot since they have a poor 3.3 rating (and I agree with that rating, which is why I try to avoid making my customers use Escrow whenever possible). Sadly, not many alternate options provided within the NP landers.

tbh, what I'd like to see on the Escrow page is GoDaddy - which is what Escrow uses to promote themselves on their own home page. It'd be better to see "Escrow is a trusted and licensed online escrow service, recommended by GoDaddy and other top eCommerce companies". Now that would instill trust imho.

 

[NameGroove]

On the NP lander, I see "bitcoin" and "paypal" as symbols. Nice - except I don't accept either. Escrow accepts Paypal - so perhaps that can stay. But can logos be removed?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

It's twofold

Thanks. I believe there's a way to remove it, so we'll reach out to Escrow.com to ask how to do that.

On the NP lander, I see "bitcoin" and "paypal" as symbols. Nice - except I don't accept either. Escrow accepts Paypal - so perhaps that can stay. But can logos be removed?

These were intended to be placeholders that users could customize, but we haven't prioritized adding that configurability yet.

In our latest version of the lander, coming sometime this month, we've updated it to look more like this:

There will eventually be an option to add/remove what's listed there.

In the meantime, if a buyer requests to use PayPal, sellers can say something like: "This transaction will use a trusted third-party service Escrow.com to protect both parties and assist with a smooth transfer of the domain to you. PayPal is only available for smaller purchases on less premium domains."

Stay tuned for more updates soon.

We're working hard!

 

[NameGroove]

Thanks. I believe there's a way to remove it, so we'll reach out to Escrow.com to ask how to do that.


These were intended to be placeholders that users could customize, but we haven't prioritized adding that configurability yet.

In our latest version of the lander, coming sometime this month, we've updated it to look more like this:

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There will eventually be an option to add/remove what's listed there.

In the meantime, if a buyer requests to use PayPal, sellers can say something like: "This transaction will use a trusted third-party service Escrow.com to protect both parties and assist with a smooth transfer of the domain to you. PayPal is only available for smaller purchases on less premium domains."

Stay tuned for more updates soon.

We're working hard!

Thanks. Your landers have come a long way since you launched them and gotten to the point where I can use them now. I created my first "bundles" on them and now have 3 landers live using you (I know it's a pittance, but you gotta start somewhere). I'm quite impressed with what you've built. Thank you.

 

[NameGroove]

Agreed; we spoke with them again today. We’re trying.

Any progress to adding Sedo as a checkout link option tied to the NP landers?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Any progress to adding Sedo as a checkout link option tied to the NP landers?

We tried for months to work with them to do it, so that we could support their 3% External Transfer Service in a buyer-friendly manner. They just couldn't wrap their heads around it, unfortunately.

Instead, we plan to let sellers create their own payment methods:

• Button text:
• Link:

So you could do things like:

• Button text: Pay with Sedo
• Link: https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain={domain}

You could even do this, but it's not as user friendly:

• Button text: Pay with Sedo ETS
• Link: https://public.zenkit.com/f/WY5dVJJZw/us-external-domain-transfer?v=JE2wDsI1a

That's the best we can do without knowledgeable support from their end.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Sedo as a checkout link option

Tip: Some sellers are already accepting Sedo, Escrow.Domains, etc. using our "Email" payment method. They use the description areas to explain the payment process that buyers can expect if they're interested.

Sedo:

Escrow.Domains / EscrowDomains.com financing available:

More options:

Another LTO example:

 

[Future Sensors]

They’re still building their API technology that will allow us to integrate their service into our landers.

 

[SpareDomains]

We tried for months to work with them to do it, so that we could support their 3% External Transfer Service in a buyer-friendly manner. They just couldn't wrap their heads around it, unfortunately.

Instead, we plan to let sellers create their own payment methods:

• Button text:
• Link:

So you could do things like:

• Button text: Pay with Sedo
• Link: https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain={domain}

You could even do this, but it's not as user friendly:

• Button text: Pay with Sedo ETS
• Link: https://public.zenkit.com/f/WY5dVJJZw/us-external-domain-transfer?v=JE2wDsI1a

That's the best we can do without knowledgeable support from their end.

Not even sure you'd want it actually...

Efty=Efty Pay, Escrow Pay, PayPal, Stripe

Atom=Atom Pay, Escrow Pay

NamePros=Atom Pay, Escrow Pay, PayPal


I don't think adding Sedo would be as automated or quick as Efty, Atom, Escrow etc.... plus the company stuck in time with no payment plans and that 3% can go to 8.5%

"Transfer Services for external domains sales​

Even when agreements are made outside of our platform, Sedo's secure Transfer Services are available regardless of which role you are playing.

Sellers receive their money without any hassle whatsoever and we provide assurance to buyers that they will acquire unlimited control of the new domain after payment has been received.

The applicant is charged a fee of 3% of the gross sales price. Please also note the minimum commission of 60 USD/EUR (45 GBP) for TLDs from category 1 and 200 USD/EUR (140 GBP) for TLDs from category 2 (see list of categories above in the Domain sale: minimum fees section). Upon request, we will also assist you in dividing the fee between the buyer and seller. Additional fees may exist through your registrar or bank. There is an additional 3% express processing fee added for payments over $500 made using Alipay and PayPal and Credit Card.

Please note: If you have had active negotiations with a buyer or seller for a listed domain on the Sedo marketplace, the marketplace commission would still apply if you reach an agreement outside of Sedo.

Minimum fees and commissions in this price list are exclusive of a VAT where applicable."

"Optional publicity waiver: If the buyer requests Sedo to not publish the sale of the domain name and its price, Sedo will charge an additional fee of 2.5% of the gross selling price (note the minimum fee)"

 

[NameGroove]

We tried for months to work with them to do it, so that we could support their 3% External Transfer Service in a buyer-friendly manner. They just couldn't wrap their heads around it, unfortunately.

Instead, we plan to let sellers create their own payment methods:

• Button text:
• Link:

So you could do things like:

• Button text: Pay with Sedo
• Link: https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain={domain}

You could even do this, but it's not as user friendly:

• Button text: Pay with Sedo ETS
• Link: https://public.zenkit.com/f/WY5dVJJZw/us-external-domain-transfer?v=JE2wDsI1a

That's the best we can do without knowledgeable support from their end.

Sedo is living in the dark ages.

How about Dyna? They also offer a checkout link, which I've used 2x and works well. Perhaps they can be "officially" added? @Caleb Tweed ?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

How about Dyna? They also offer a checkout link, which I've used 2x and works well. Perhaps they can be "officially" added? @Caleb Tweed ?

Thanks for the reminder on this. We're going to schedule a call with Dynadot to see what options are available for integration. Thanks again!

 

[Andreas B.]

Hi,

for one of my domains, I would like to add a short text on the landing page.

Is that possible?
How do I do that?
Can't find that...

Thanks for answering.


Edit:
Ok, found it. Content > Edit Content.

 

[Future Sensors]

Hi,

for one of my domains, I would like to add a short text on the landing page.

Is that possible?
How do I do that?
Can't find that...

Thanks for answering.

Here are some guides: https://www.namepros.com/forums/namepros-parking-with-for-sale-landers.440/

 

[Andreas B.]

Here are some guides: https://www.namepros.com/forums/namepros-parking-with-for-sale-landers.440/

Thanks, got it.

Now I have another problem
For a short time period I changed the nameservers.

However, now I get this info trying to visit the domain:

It's now almost 24 hrs, that I have this error.

So, it seems it doesn't go away...

Any advice?

 

[Jannes]

Thanks, got it.

Now I have another problem
For a short time period I changed the nameservers.

However, now I get this info trying to visit the domain:

Show attachment 283526

It's now almost 24 hrs, that I have this error.

So, it seems it doesn't go away...

Any advice?

Works for me. (You may want to check the spelling of the short description though.)

 

[Future Sensors]

It's now almost 24 hrs, that I have this error.

Works for me too, on HTTPS:

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Any advice?

We've sent you a DM to assist in case you notice it again: https://www.namepros.com/conversations/3417543/

Thank you to @Jannes and @Future Sensors for checking this so quickly. We really appreciate you!