Estate planning as a Namecheap account holder

Namecheap is one of the largest independent ICANN-accredited domain registrars. Alongside domain registration it sells shared and VPS hosting, SSL certificates, Private Email, managed WordPress, a VPN, and Domain Vault, a premium protection service built around registry-level locking. Support runs entirely through 24/7 live chat and a published set of department email addresses; Namecheap states it does not offer phone support. The legal notice address in its Universal Terms of Service is Namecheap Legal Department, 4600 East Washington Street, Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ 85034.

After a Namecheap account holder dies, Namecheap, Inc. may transfer domains to a designated recipient, but this is handled case by case. The outcome depends on the documentation provided and is entirely at Namecheap, Inc.'s discretion.

domains can be transferred to another person while the Namecheap account holder is alive.

What happens at death

Namecheap publishes no bereavement or estate-claim process. Its Universal Terms of Service (last revised May 2026) and its Registration Agreement were both fetched in full and scanned end to end on 2026-09-16: neither contains the words death, deceased, estate, executor or probate (positive controls in the same fetched text: "transfer" 66 occurrences, "registrant" 24). A scan of the article titles in the five knowledge-base categories an executor would reach for - My Account, Domains, General & Support, Domain Transfers and Domain Vault, 134 articles between them - found no deceased-account article either. What the Terms do say bears directly on an estate. Section 34 states that a customer's rights under the agreement are not assignable or transferable, so the ACCOUNT does not pass. Section 21 requires identity verification before any support assistance is given, on terms Namecheap sets in its sole discretion. Section 22 states that Namecheap will not change passwords, that restoring account access requires identification it deems appropriate, and that in a dispute over ownership it stays neutral and may put the account on hold. Individual DOMAINS, by contrast, are transferable: they move between Namecheap accounts through Change Ownership, or out to another registrar with an auth code. So the practical route for an executor is a case-by-case support request, and the answer will turn on what Namecheap accepts as proof of authority.