Privacy
NameFew shows no ads and doesn't sell data. Its only analytics are its own daily page counts (below) and Cloudflare's cookie-free page counter. This is a plain list of what it keeps and who else sees any of it.
Effective October 26, 2026.
Who else handles your data
- DreamHost hosts the site and keeps ordinary web server logs.
- Cloudflare sits in front of the site, so your requests pass through it. It also loads a small Web Analytics script that counts visits. That script sets no cookies and writes nothing to your browser's storage.
- Google (sign-in), Anthropic (AI opinions and logos), IPQualityScore (fraud checks), Mailgun (email), LogoLava and the feedback service are covered in their own sections below.
- Stripe: if NameFew ever charges for something and you buy it, Stripe processes the payment and receives your card details, email and billing country. We receive a record of the payment, not your card number. Nothing costs money today.
If you just look around
- A random player ID in a cookie (
nf2, one year). It isn't linked to your name or email. It keeps your practice-round record and stops duplicate answers. - Your sound setting (on or off, for the three notes on the Judge page) is saved in your browser only,
localStorage; it is never sent to us. - A scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address, used to limit abuse.
- Which pages get visited, and from where: NameFew adds one to a daily count for each page, and for the kind of site that sent you (search, a forum, direct). It counts a visitor once a day using a scrambled code made from your IP address and browser that changes every day, so nobody can be followed from one day to the next. It is left out if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.
- What you do: the names you appraise or compare, your taps, and your practice and daily round answers, tied to the random ID.
- AI opinion: when one is shown, the name you appraised (and public comparable sales) goes to Anthropic, an AI company, to write the opinion. Nothing about you goes with it.
If you sign in with Google
Signing in is optional. You need it to judge names, request human appraisals, watch a name or list a name for sale.
- From Google we get your name, your email address and Google's account ID for you. Google also sends a link to your profile picture. We keep the link and show the picture, loaded straight from Google, in your own account menu. Nobody else sees it.
- Google's sign-in script loads on the pages where you can sign in, so Google can see you visited them.
- We keep the above, your settings, your notifications, the names you watch or request, and your judging record (your answers and a score for how well you rank names with known prices).
- Your name isn't shown to other users. Appraisers appear only as numbers.
How NameFew uses your Google account data
NameFew asks Google for only your name, email address and profile picture link (the basic sign-in scopes). We use them to sign you in, to create and run your NameFew account, to show your picture in your own account menu, and to send the three kinds of email listed below. We don't sell or share Google user data, don't use it for ads, and don't use it to train AI models. Your Google name and email never go to Anthropic, to the feedback service or to anyone else, except that your email address is passed to another user only when you send or answer an inquiry about a domain, as described below. NameFew's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. You can delete your account and this data at any time (see "Deleting your account").
Checks against fake accounts
A human appraisal only means something if one person is one account, so we run some checks.
- At sign-in your IP address, browser type and language go to IPQualityScore, a fraud-checking service, and we keep the risk score it returns.
- We keep a device hash (a scrambled value made from your browser type, screen size, time zone, language and platform) and hashed IP addresses, and use them to notice when several accounts come from the same place.
NameFew sends three kinds of email: "your human appraisal is complete" for a name you watch, "someone is interested in buying your name" if you've listed one, and "you have a new message" when someone writes to you in a conversation about a name (at most one every six hours per conversation, and it never contains the message itself). They go through Mailgun, which handles your address and the message. Each has an unsubscribe link, and you can switch email off in your account.
For sale and inquiries
A listing (the name, your asking price and your note) is public. Your email isn't. When someone sends an inquiry about your name, we pass their message and email address to you so you can reply. When you send one, the owner gets your message and your email address. NameFew only passes the message along. After the first message, the conversation (messages, offers and replies) is kept in the site for both of you to read, until either of you deletes their account.
Logos
If you press "Design 6 logos with AI" or "Make 6 quick logos" on a listing, we send LogoLava (a logo maker run by the same person as NameFew) the domain name and anything you typed in the description and Advanced boxes; for AI designs it asks an AI model (Claude, from Anthropic) to design them. We do not send your account, email or anything else. The six we get back are kept on our server, visible only to you, until you pick one or make a new set; the one you pick is shown on your listing. An image you upload, or one you point us to by its address (we fetch it once from that address), is checked and re-saved the same way. Deleting the logo or your account deletes the file.
Feedback
If you send feedback, we keep the message, plus a contact detail if you type one in the /feedback form. The operator reads it. The Feedback tab on each page is run by a small feedback service on the operator's own server (feedback.namefew.com), not on NameFew's host. It keeps your mood choice, what you typed, a coarse page kind (not the address), your screen-size bucket, light or dark, the site version, your browser's identification text and language, your country, a scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address (to limit spam) and the time. If you are signed in, it also keeps a code that is not your account ID, plus your nickname or seller handle if you set one, so the operator can tell that two messages came from the same person. It never gets your Google name or email. It is plain text, not encrypted, and kept until the operator deletes it. Nobody else sees it.
Deleting your account
"Delete my account" on your account page removes your sign-in, email, settings, notifications, watches, requests, listings, logos you uploaded or made, and inquiries. Your judging answers stay without any link back to you, because deleting them would change human appraisals other people are looking at.
Children
NameFew is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Operator: B Klug (NamePros member b-klug). Questions or requests about your data: privacy@namefew.com, or use the feedback form.
Version 2 replaced the 2020 NameFew site, which also used Google sign-in. Data from the 2020 site is held privately by the operator and isn't shown or used here.