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!

 

[RapidNames.com]

allow us to add style, color ,background, border etc.,

so we can make more unique and attractive landers.

 

[NameGroove]

"Request seller support" could work.

Another idea:

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The small text could easily be changed to Provided by seller, Seller support, From seller, or something else.

Maybe that'll be a little clearer?

If you like this better than Seller Support - it solves my concern.

However, it does have 5 words instead of 2. Seems then that you really like the word "help"? Seller Help? Would that do?

Of course, you could always choose the more verbose way if you must or possibly shorten to "Request Help from Seller".

 

[NameGroove]

allow us to add style, color ,background, border etc.,

so we can make more unique and attractive landers.

You can change background colors. go to the help guide

 

[RapidNames.com]

You can change background colors. go to the help guide

Thanks, i may not explain in detail.

not only bg color, i would like to add borders with bg, text bg and many more.

 

[NameGroove]

Thanks, i may not explain in detail.

not only bg color, i would like to add borders with bg, text bg and many more.

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I'd suggest custom landers for something like this.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Team, any chance to add a currency selection when setting up the lander? (to add EUR at least on a first stage).

Do you want the buyer to be able to choose it, or do you want it to be chosen for the buyer by you?

 

[Quebec Tech Team]

Thanks, i may not explain in detail.

not only bg color, i would like to add borders with bg, text bg and many more.

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We generally prefer to provide our users building blocks that allow them to customize the appearance of landers while hopefully avoiding common pitfalls and ensuring a professional appearance on all devices. This is something we are continually expanding.

For example, we could easily allow users to center align text within the expanded description, much like you have in your image. This would not compromise the overall appearance of the page, or introduce potential issues.

Allowing custom text colors is a different story. It is very easy to create accessibility issues with custom colors, sometimes non-obvious ones. It is very easy to create displays that, while attention grabbing, lower the visitors confidence in the page. It is very easy to clash with the visual coherence of the rest of the page, which does have an effect on visitor perception.

For these (and other) reasons we don't see customization that allows sellers to do things like select any color for text, or select any text size, to be healthy features for our landers. Of course, we do want to allow customization and provide tools to support that, and so we will always try and figure out how we can safely balance customization while still guaranteeing a professional, functional display to all visitors.

Again, we are always trying to expand our customization, we welcome requests for additional features. For example, we are actively working on improving image display within the descriptions because we see so many users utilizing them in creative ways.

You actually can get quite close to the display you are requesting using the features that exist on our landers right now:

 

[VadimK]

Do you want the buyer to be able to choose it, or do you want it to be chosen for the buyer by you?

Well, my idea was that I, as the seller, set a default currency (either per name or for the whole account).

But I am also perfectly fine with giving buyers the option to choose their preferred currency, using today's average exchange rate. Ideally, this buyer currency option could be toggled on or off (by the seller in settings - again, for the name or account) - guess some sellers from the U.S. may prefer to keep things simple. Thanks!

 

[NameGroove]

We generally prefer to provide our users building blocks that allow them to customize the appearance of landers while hopefully avoiding common pitfalls and ensuring a professional appearance on all devices. This is something we are continually expanding.

For example, we could easily allow users to center align text within the expanded description, much like you have in your image. This would not compromise the overall appearance of the page, or introduce potential issues.

Allowing custom text colors is a different story. It is very easy to create accessibility issues with custom colors, sometimes non-obvious ones. It is very easy to create displays that, while attention grabbing, lower the visitors confidence in the page. It is very easy to clash with the visual coherence of the rest of the page, which does have an effect on visitor perception.

For these (and other) reasons we don't see customization that allows sellers to do things like select any color for text, or select any text size, to be healthy features for our landers. Of course, we do want to allow customization and provide tools to support that, and so we will always try and figure out how we can safely balance customization while still guaranteeing a professional, functional display to all visitors.

Again, we are always trying to expand our customization, we welcome requests for additional features. For example, we are actively working on improving image display within the descriptions because we see so many users utilizing them in creative ways.

You actually can get quite close to the display you are requesting using the features that exist on our landers right now:

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Nice! How do we get that yellow box in the expanded lander section? Any guide for that html? How do we get the 'green box' too (it may be identical).

 

[Quebec Tech Team]

Nice! How do we get that yellow box in the expanded lander section? Any guide for that html? How do we get the 'green box' too (it may be identical).

We'll be updating the guide in a bit to include the latest changes

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

If you like this better than Seller Support - it solves my concern.
However, it does have 5 words instead of 2.

Excellent point; 5 words is a bit much.

How about this?

Side note: It's best if we keep this as a call-to-action phrase so that it fits well with "Buy now" above it, so "Request seller support" works. "Seller Support" is great for a link. We explain below why we chose not to do it as a link.

It should not be a button, but a tiny link.

Contacting the seller, however it is phrased, should not be an alternative option

The reason we made it an alternative option is twofold:

Those tiny help links on other landers are easy to miss. If the difference between a deal happening or not is whether the buyer can receive the assistance they need, we think it should be more readily noticeable.

The second reason is that if someone enables BIN only (no other options), then it looks odd to have this type of "multiple selection" box with only one possible selection:

Let us know what you think.

 

[Future Sensors]

The second reason is that if someone enables BIN only (no other options), then it looks odd to have this type of "multiple selection" box with only one possible selection:

That's not odd at all. It's actually the perfect flow for BIN only.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

That's not odd at all. It's actually the perfect flow for BIN only.

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Thank you for sharing this example.

In my opinion: It's not bad. It's not great.

For it to work with ours, we'd probably need to change the checkmark before "Buy now" (when there's only one option) to avoid confusion:

(The buyer might wonder what it means to have a checkmark there.)

 

[Future Sensors]

Positioning the Continue button directly beneath the BIN price really amplifies the call to action. You're almost matching my screenshot now.

 

[Future Sensors]

Even though I have some nerdy tendencies myself, I'd still suggest making the BIN price font look more professional.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I'd be curious how many buyers click on "Buy Now" thinking that's a button. It looks like a button.

I'd hope that all buyers would realize the "Proceed to Payment" button below it is for the "Buy Now" button-looking rectangle above it, but that's less clear when there is only one option.

Notably, I've spoken with thousands of NamePros users that've been confused by interfaces far simpler than this.

Things to keep in mind.

 

[Future Sensors]

I'd be curious how many buyers click on "Buy now" thinking that's a button. It looks like a button.

You're overthinking this

Just visit an Atom lander and you notice that it's a natural flow.

 

[NameGroove]

Excellent point; 5 words is a bit much.

How about this?

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Side note: It's best if we keep this as a call-to-action phrase so that it fits well with "Buy now" above it, so "Request seller support" works. "Seller Support" is great for a link. We explain below why we chose not to do it as a link.



The reason we made it an alternative option is twofold:

Those tiny help links on other landers are easy to miss. If the difference between a deal happening or not is whether the buyer can receive the assistance they need, we think it should be more readily noticeable.

The second reason is that if someone enables BIN only (no other options), then it looks odd to have this type of "multiple selection" box with only one possible selection:

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Let us know what you think.

If you want to keep it a cta, then Request Seller Help or Request Seller Support or Get Seller Help or Get Seller Support all work (and are all 3 words). Personally, I do not like the floating word "seller" under the icon.

I like any of these options right below BIN (and not hidden) since it gives a clear path for someone to contact me. I do not worry that this deters buyers from choosing the BIN option, or offers too much choice to offer buyer paralysis. I think placing a smaller link way down the page could be missed.

All that said, if the consensus was to move the little help link to lower down, it would not make the page unusable. Spaceship has no "help" or phone number at all. No one is complaining.

If you do decide to go the route of moving the second option below, I agree a redesign is needed. At that point, since there is only one option, the button itself should be "Buy Now" and not continue. That's a cta and that's what would be optimal when there is only one choice (and why checkmarks, radio pins, etc deter). As you can see - Atom chooses "proceed to payment" instead of buy now to stop redundancy. Which I do like, since people know the next step is payment... but really, what else could it be?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Just visit an Atom lander and you notice that it's a natural flow.

We don't know whether Atom has ever measured it. It could be that 90% of buyers get it, but if you're optimizing for conversions, then 10% still matters. Even a 1% improvement matters, if all else is equal.

Also, most BIN listings on Atom have a LTO option, resulting in two options:

It's worth considering.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

This is much better than Atom's. That'd certainly work.

Thanks for sharing this.