Domain Protection After Death - Don't Lose Them

[homebuyer]

How To Protect Your Domains From A Drop Feeding Frenzy Should You Die Without Making Any Provisions For The Subsequent Disposition Of Your Domains.

1. Buy a domain from godaddy. It comes with free email.

2. Log in to your free email account at https://email.secureserver.net/login.php

3. Write an email to your executor, or trusted friend, containing your registrar account password(s), list of domains with expiration dates, and their estimated value and how to liquidate them via ebay, tdnam, etc.

4. Do not send it. Encrypt it and schedule it for delivery for one month from now. Then click send. Window will close. Double check your "Send Later" folder to see if the email is there.

CAVEAT: If you encrypt it, the recipient must also have a godaddy free web based email account to decrypt it. You can always give your recipient a godaddy email account (set it up for him), and then configure it to forward any post-death emails to the recipient's regular email address.

5. Disclose your plans and password to your executor, or trusted friend.

6. If you don't die within a 30-day period, keep rescheduling the email every month.

It is worth the time and effort. I would surely hate to see my family lose my domains.

I am also going to add a section in my post-death email telling my executor, or trusted friend, where to find the hidden cash and other valuables (not that I have any) in my home, and other instructions.

Thank goodness for modern technology.

 

[cache]

interesting. If I have automatic renew and a written will, I guess I still need to let
people know the password etc.

 

[DropLister]

every 30 days that would be rather depressing.

 

[homebuyer]

Not depressing.

I would think that you would be glad to be alive and well at the keyboard when you updated your scheduled email.

As for relying on automatic renewal, your credit cards could be frozen upon your death. So you had better have a backup plan for your domains.

 

[Damion]

Indeed, why not have a sit down with a lawyer or Notary to have this all in place.
This way you don't need to have important information residing at a server (Encrypted or not) plus the thought of confronting yourself - "Is this the month i am going to the other side?"

The thought of letting your loved ones take over control over your assets is natural just like as in a Will but to do it like this is not the way to do it.

 

[homebuyer]

Quick, Cheap and Easy Alternative

The last time I sat down with a lawyer it cost me $250 before the air in the seat cushion deflated. The godaddy post-death email costs, at most, $14 a year for the sender and recipient email accounts; and it costs nothing if you and your recipient already have domains registered with godaddy.

If you hire a lawyer to make the post-death domain notification, the lawyer might not be notified of your death before your domains start expiring. In addition, you will most likely be billed for the first time your meet with him or her, anytime you update your password, change your recipient list, purchase a new domain via a drop with a registrar you have never used before, and after you die when he or she has to begin the notification process. Time is money.

One more thing. If you are concerned that a hacker might read the scheduled email from godaddy's server and learn your account passwords, then, as a preventative measure, you should tell your recipient in advance that perhaps the 3d character in each of your passwords is bogus, and should be disregarded. This should thwart any hackers attempt to use your password info.

 

[estibot.com]

The last time I sat down with a lawyer it cost me $250 before the air in the seat cushion deflated.

That's great - You might make more money writing pulp fiction than selling domains

Josh

 

[IAmAllanShore]

It took 2 years, but CoastalGuy got his wish (And Homebuyer contributed sound advice here, also.)!
http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/63563-your-digital-will-if-you-will.html
One of the takeaways for me was the "DeadMan's Switch", of which there are some commercially available ones that send emails or have popups on your computer in addition to deleting what you want it to, as a method for "sending messages from beyond the grave" - or the "Tupac Method", if you will.
-Allan :gl:

 

[SpareDomains]

some very good advice from homebuyer, a lot of people don't make plans and to someone that has never dealt with logging into registrars etc... I imagine it would not go smoothly for them especially when dealing with your recent death, I would suggest sitting down with someone and teaching them how to login, renew, push etc... so if that day comes they know what to do to keep your portfolio, I personally wouldn't set up an automatic email just in case I forgot to stop it from sending... "hello I'm dead here's my passwords" :hehe: don't think I would hear the end of it if it was sen't by mistake.