Planning ahead for your NameBright domains
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for NameBright, LLC domains
NameBright Support
NameBright, 2635 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
NameBright Support
NameBright, 2635 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205
(General customer service)
NameBright, LLC 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 (recipient has 5 days to accept). Procedure documented at https://legacy.namebright.com/Faq
- •Enable auto-renewal on all domains to prevent accidental expiration while an executor is organizing the estate
- •Keep a valid payment method on file so auto-renewal continues to process during any estate delay
- •Consider transferring critical domains to a registrar with a documented estate claim process
- •Enable Two-Factor Authentication and store backup codes with your estate documents
- •Review the Account Security Log periodically; share its location with your executor
- •Use Linked Accounts to grant a trusted family member or business partner specific permissions on the account without sharing the master credentials
Family sharing
NameBright supports "pushing" domains between NameBright accounts. The sender enters the recipient's NameBright username and email, and the recipient has 5 days to accept the push before it is automatically cancelled. Pushes move the domain immediately between accounts without triggering the 60-day ICANN transfer lock. Domains can also be transferred out to another registrar using the standard EPP auth-code process.
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 does not support beneficiary designations. The most reliable way to ensure domains pass to a specific person is to push them to that person's NameBright account during your lifetime or to register domains in the name of a business entity or revocable trust.
Yes. NameBright supports pushing domains between accounts. Go to the domain's settings, select the Transfer tab, enter the recipient's NameBright username and email, and submit. The recipient has 5 days to accept the push before it is automatically cancelled. Unlike a registrar-to-registrar transfer, a push does not trigger the 60-day ICANN transfer lock.
A Support Code is a unique identifier found in your NameBright account dashboard. NameBright support staff requires this code to access your account when you contact them for account-specific assistance. Include this code in your estate planning documentation alongside your account credentials so your executor can reach support quickly.
If post-death domain recovery is a concern, consider transferring critical domains to a registrar that publishes a formal estate claim process. Alternatively, push valuable domains to a trusted person's NameBright account during your lifetime to avoid the uncertainty of negotiating access after death.
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, LLC primary sources (6 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)
