Proplan Ontwikkeling

What Proplan Ontwikkeling does

Proplan Ontwikkeling is a privately-held Dutch limited company (KvK: 88910652, BTW: NL864820458B01) registered at Steenplaetsstraat 6, 2288AA Rijswijk, Netherlands, with one disclosed director (Gurbe v.d. Schaaf). The firmographic short description positions the company as an innovative and leading partner for the development, realization, and management of sustainable and livable [spaces], suggesting an origin in Dutch real-estate or sustainable development. However, the company's currently observable web footprint — proplan.nl — consists of a single landing page listing the domain itself for sale through Nameshift.com, an online domain marketplace and escrow platform also operated by the company.

Nameshift.com is the company's principal observable product: a marketplace that intermediates the sale and transfer of domain names between owners and prospective buyers. The platform offers escrow protection (buyers receive a full refund if transfer fails), an average 24-hour domain transfer turnaround, and a buyer-fee-free model in which sellers pay commission. The platform supports 16 country/language variants spanning Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom), North America (United States, Canada), and Asia (China), and accepts a broad range of payment methods including VISA, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, bank transfer, iDEAL (Netherlands), Bancontact (Belgium), EPS (Austria), UnionPay (China), and JCB (Japan). Free domain transfer assistance and a free VAT invoice via email are bundled into the offering.

The business model is transaction-based, with revenue derived from seller-paid commissions on completed domain transfers. The company is small and independently operated: only one director is disclosed, there is no disclosed headcount, no funding history, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no product portfolio beyond the Nameshift.com marketplace. The listing of proplan.nl itself for sale on the company's own marketplace suggests the firm may be in a wind-down, pivot, or asset-monetization phase relative to its original sustainable-development positioning.

Name

Proplan Ontwikkeling

Legal name

Proplan Ontwikkeling

Website

https://proplan.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Proplan Ontwikkeling is a privately-held Dutch company that operates Nameshift.com, an online domain name marketplace and escrow service that intermediates domain sales and transfers between owners and global SMB and individual buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Domain Marketplace

NAICS

Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (42512)

akta.pro primary industry

Merchant-of-Record (MoR) & Payment Facilitation (PayFac) Infrastructure (FSAGABAE)

Keywords

• Domain marketplace
• Domain escrow services
• Domain transfer
• Domain name sales
• Secure domain transfer

Headquarters

HQ city

Heerenveen

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Proplan Ontwikkeling, doing business as Nameshift.com, operates an online domain name marketplace and escrow service that facilitates safe, fast transfers of domain ownership between sellers and buyers. The platform coordinates payment processing, holds funds in escrow until transfer completion, and provides free assistance to buyers, while charging commission to sellers.

Product overview

The source content is a domain name for-sale landing page hosted on proplan.nl, displaying the Nameshift.com domain escrow service. The page features the domain name "sveltekit-prerender" available for purchase through Nameshift.com's escrow platform. No distinct product portfolio or named offerings for Proplan Ontwikkeling are present in the source data. The content describes Nameshift.com's domain purchase service with features including escrow protection, free domain transfer, 24-hour average transfer time, and free buyer assistance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nameshift.com Domain Marketplace

Quantifiable outcome

• Average domain transfer time of 24 hours

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Escrow.com: Escrow.com is a general-purpose online escrow service widely used for domain, vehicle, and high-value transactions. It overlaps with Nameshift.com on the domain-escrow rails though it serves a much broader asset universe.
• Afternic (GoDaddy): Afternic is GoDaddy's domain aftermarket and offers lander pages, brokerage, and escrow-style transfer coordination. Comparable in transaction facilitation though bundled into GoDaddy's broader registrar ecosystem.
• GoDaddy: GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar and offers aftermarket brokerage via Afternic. It competes indirectly by owning the registrar-side transfer rails that any domain escrow platform must integrate with.
• Sedo: Sedo is the largest global domain marketplace and offers MLS distribution, brokerage, and transfer services. It overlaps with Nameshift.com on the escrow/transfer flow but operates at vastly greater scale and inventory breadth.
• Namecheap: Namecheap is a major registrar with a marketplace and transfer services. It is comparable as a domain transaction platform, though it bundles the offering inside a broader hosting/registrar product suite.

Direct peers

• Squadhelp: Squadhelp is a brandable-domain marketplace that also runs naming contests. Comparable in intermediating between domain sellers and buyers, with a curation and service layer similar to Nameshift.com.
• Dan.com: Dan.com is a domain name marketplace and escrow provider that brokers sales between buyers and sellers with installment-payment options. It is the closest direct peer to Nameshift.com in product and delivery model.
• BrandBucket: BrandBucket sells curated brandable domain names with broker support and escrow-style transactions. Directly comparable to Nameshift.com on the curated premium-domain buying experience.
• Undeveloped: Undeveloped runs a curated premium-domain marketplace with buyer/seller facilitation and escrow. It targets the same premium-domain buyer segment as Nameshift.com and competes on similar service quality.

Emerging players

• Flippa: Flippa is a marketplace for buying and selling websites, SaaS, apps, and domains with built-in escrow. It overlaps with Nameshift.com's escrow flow and could expand to capture the same digital-asset intermediary use case.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/proplanontw

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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