Planning ahead for your NameBright domains
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for NameBright, Inc. (a TurnCommerce corporation) domains
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NameBright, 2635 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
NameBright Support
NameBright, 2635 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
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NameBright, Inc. (a TurnCommerce corporation) does not guarantee transfer of domains after death. Lifetime planning provides options for managing domains and controlling who has access to them.
How to protect your NameBright domains
5 lifetime planning steps for your NameBright domains:
- •Push valuable domains to a trusted family member's NameBright account while you can. They must already have a NameBright account, and they have 5 days to accept. Procedure: https://help.namebright.com/article/domain-pushes
- •Turn Auto-Renew on for every domain you intend to keep. New registrations default to on, and NameBright renews 14 days before expiration by default: https://help.namebright.com/article/manage-auto-renew
- •Keep a funded account balance or a valid card on file, since NameBright draws on the balance first and then cycles through the cards; a failed renewal starts the expiry clock
- •Keep the account contact email address current. Every renewal-failure and expiration notice goes to it, and an unmonitored inbox is how a portfolio is lost
- •Enable Two-Factor Authentication and store the backup method with your estate documents: https://help.namebright.com/article/security-settings
- •Note whether you have set a Domain Delete PIN. It is a 4-digit code that cannot be retrieved if forgotten, and setting or changing it imposes a 7-day waiting period before any domain can be deleted
- •Note your Transfer-Out Security setting. Under the Terms, High Security auto-declines an outbound transfer after 4 days with no action, while Low Security lets it complete after 5 days
- •Use Linked Accounts to give a trusted family member or business partner specific permissions on the account rather than sharing your own login: https://www.namebright.com/terms
Family sharing
NameBright supports "pushing" a domain from one NameBright account to another. The sender supplies the recipient's NameBright username and email address; the recipient must already have a NameBright account, since a domain cannot be pushed to someone who does not. The recipient has 5 days to log in and accept the push from My Account > My Transfers > Inbound Pushes, after which the push is cancelled automatically and the domain stays in the sender's account. An accepted push moves the domain immediately and does not trigger a transfer lock. Domains can also be transferred out to another ICANN-accredited registrar with the standard auth/EPP code, which does require the 60-day lock to have expired. Separately, the Terms describe Linked Accounts, which let another NameBright user hold specified permissions on an account.
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Frequently asked questions
No. NameBright offers no beneficiary designation. The alternatives are to push a domain to the intended person's NameBright account during your lifetime, or to register the domains to a business entity or a revocable trust so the registrant survives you.
Yes. NameBright calls it a push. From My Transfers, select Start Push and enter the recipient's NameBright username and email address and the domains to push. The recipient must already have a NameBright account, and has 5 days to log in and accept from My Account > My Transfers > Inbound Pushes. An accepted push moves the domain immediately and triggers no transfer lock; an unaccepted one is cancelled and the domain stays with you.
A Support code is an account identifier NameBright uses to match a request to an account. The contact form at namebright.com/contact-us accepts it as an optional field alongside Username and Domain Name. Record it with your estate documents together with the account username and registered email address, so an executor can give support something to work from.
Recording that a NameBright account exists, alongside other accounts, gives a fiduciary the information needed to reach the operator through its official process.
NameBright does not offer beneficiary designations, so there is no program-level mechanism for directing domains to a specific person at death.
Sources
Data sourced from NameBright, Inc. (a TurnCommerce corporation) primary sources (11 pages reviewed). How we research.
NameBright Support
NameBright, 2635 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
NameBright Support
NameBright, 2635 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
(General customer service)
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