Estate planning as a Namecheap account holder

Namecheap is one of the largest independent ICANN-accredited domain registrars, managing over 17 million domains. Alongside domain registration, Namecheap offers shared and VPS hosting, SSL certificates, private email, and the premium Domain Vault / Registry Lock security service for high-value domains.

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 does not publish a standalone bereavement or estate-claim policy page, but its "What Happens to Your Websites When You Die?" blog post states that to gain access to a deceased customer's accounts a nominee "will require a death certificate, a grant of probate, and their executor's ID." Requests are handled case-by-case through live chat and the email ticket system; Namecheap does not offer phone support. The Universal Terms of Service prohibit transferring the account itself without Namecheap's prior written approval, but individual domains can be moved between Namecheap accounts using the Change Ownership feature or transferred out to another registrar with the standard EPP auth code.