How Escrow Keeps a Domain Deal Safe

The obvious question when buying a domain from a stranger on the internet: why would I send money to someone I've never met?

The answer is — you don't. You never send us anything. Every NameCrush sale runs through Escrow.com, the same licensed, regulated escrow service that settles six- and seven-figure domain deals across the industry.

The Five Steps

1. Agree on a price. You make an offer through the site, we reply within 24 hours, and we settle on a number by email.
2. We open the transaction. You get an Escrow.com invitation naming the domain, the price and the terms. Nothing is binding until you accept it there.
3. You fund escrow. Card, bank transfer or PayPal — the money sits with Escrow.com, a licensed third party. We can see that it arrived; we cannot touch it.
4. We transfer the name. Registrar push (instant, same registrar) or an auth-code transfer to wherever you like — GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Spaceship.
5. You confirm, funds release. Only when the domain is verifiably inside your account does Escrow.com release payment to us.

The Failure Cases

This structure is really about what happens when things go wrong. If we never deliver the name, escrow times out and refunds you in full. If the transfer stalls at a registrar, the money simply waits — nobody is out of pocket while it resolves. There is no scenario where we hold both the domain and your money.

Who Pays the Fee

Escrow.com charges roughly 3% on typical deal sizes. We split it with the buyer fairly on every sale — it is the cost of both sides sleeping well, and it is priced into how we do business.

That's the whole story. No wire transfers on trust, no crypto to an anonymous wallet — just the industry-standard process, every single time.