Terms

Using NameFew means you agree to these. They're short. NameFew is run by B Klug, a sole proprietor in Missouri, USA.

Last changed November 5, 2026 (the buyer buys from the seller, who is paid through their own Stripe account; refund and payout dates; the checkout opens).

The NameFew checkout is open. For now, only names that NameFew's founder owns can be bought through it; other owners' names follow. The sections below describe how it works. Buyers and sellers can also message each other on NameFew.

The basics

• One person, one account. Don't make extra accounts. Accounts that arrive together and behave the same get discounted or removed.
• Don't judge names you own or have an interest in, or names a friend or client owns. Don't ask others to rank a name up or down.
• No bots, no scripts, and no scraping the appraisals or the sales we show.
• You must be 18 or older to buy or sell. You may not use NameFew from a country under US sanctions, or if you are on a US government restricted list, and we may refuse or refund a sale to follow US law.
• We may remove an account, an answer, a listing or a message at any time, especially to keep the appraisals honest.

Appraisals are opinions

The robot's range, the AI opinion and the humans' range are estimates of what a name might sell for. They are not advice, not a guarantee and not an offer to buy or sell anything. Domains are risky, so check comparable sales yourself before you spend money.

Buying and selling

• Listings. List a name only if you own it. You can prove it with a DNS record, or a file or tag on the name's own site; we check when you ask and re-check from time to time, and if the proof goes missing the listing is paused. A name you have not proved yet is not shown publicly, and the claim comes down after 60 days if it stays unproved. Free to list. You pay only if a name sells through NameFew, at the rates below.
• No trademarks. Do not list a name that uses someone else's trademark, or a confusing variation of one, unless you have the right to. Anyone can report a listing from its page. We remove listings we believe infringe, and we cancel and refund any open checkout for them.
• Referral links. Some links to other marketplaces (Atom, today) carry our referral code. If you buy there, the marketplace may pay NameFew a fee. It does not change the price you pay.
• Who you buy from. NameFew is a marketplace: it provides the listings, price estimates, messaging and checkout software. NameFew does not own the domains its members list and is not the seller of any of them. When you pay through the checkout, you buy the domain from its seller. For that sale the seller is the merchant, the seller's name appears on your payment after NAMEFEW, and the seller is responsible to you for delivering the domain and for any refund these terms require. NameFew charges the seller a commission for its service. NameFew does not promise anything about a domain's traffic, history, search ranking or value. It checks that the seller controls the name before listing it. The appraisals are opinions.
• Messages. Keep them honest and civil. No spam, threats or the same message to many sellers. Offers and replies happen in the site, on your Offers page. Email addresses, phone numbers, links to other sites and social handles are hidden in messages until a checkout is paid. Anyone can report a message, and a member reported by three different people cannot message until we have looked. We may act on any report.

Sales go through NameFew

If you and another member first make contact about a domain through NameFew, any sale of that domain between you (or anyone acting for you) within 12 months of that contact is a NameFew sale, and the seller owes the commission on it, whether or not the sale is completed through the NameFew checkout. Contact details are hidden in messages until a checkout is paid. Completing a sale off NameFew to avoid the commission is a breach of these terms and can end your account. A sale completed outside the checkout is between the two of you: NameFew is not part of the payment and is not responsible for the domain, but the commission is still owed.

How the checkout works

When you buy through the checkout, you pay for the domain through it and the payment goes to the seller's Stripe account. The seller transfers the domain to you, and NameFew's commission is taken from the seller's side as a fee for its service. Card and bank details go straight to our payment processor, Stripe, and never reach our servers. The charge appears on your statement as NAMEFEW followed by the seller's name. All prices are in US dollars (USD). You can pay by card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover). Your bank may ask you to confirm a card payment.

How the domain is delivered

• When you start the checkout you choose how the domain reaches you: a push to your account at the seller's registrar (usually minutes), or a transfer to your own registrar with an authorization code (usually 1 to 7 days). Registrars may refuse a transfer to another registrar for 60 days after a name was registered or last moved; a push is usually not affected.
• The seller is asked to send it within 3 days of payment, and must send it within 10 days of payment (counted from your last change to the delivery details, if you change them, and never later than the date shown on the checkout page).
• The sale counts as delivered when you press I have it, or when the registry shows the name has moved and you do not tell us otherwise within 3 days.
• If something is wrong, press Report a problem on the checkout page.

The commission

The commission is a fee NameFew charges the seller for its service, and only when a name sells through NameFew. 24% of the price with a minimum of $25. The seller pays it out of the price; the buyer pays exactly the price shown. Stripe's fees come out of NameFew's commission, never added to either side. A lower rate for names that point at their NameFew sales page is coming. A change to these rates applies only to checkouts created after it is published, and each sale keeps the rate it was created under.

Refunds and cancelling a purchase

These apply to sales through the checkout.

• Before you pay, you or the seller can cancel the checkout, and an unpaid checkout expires after 7 days. Nothing is owed.
• You can cancel within 24 hours of paying, as long as the seller has not marked the domain as sent, with the Cancel button on the checkout page. You get a full refund.
• If the seller has not sent the domain within 10 days of payment, you are refunded in full, without having to ask.
• If you have not told us where to send the domain within 10 days of payment, the sale is cancelled and you are refunded in full.
• If you report that the domain did not arrive, we check the registry and the registrar. If it is still with the seller, you are refunded in full. If it is in your account, the sale closes.
• If a domain turns out to be stolen, not the seller's to sell, or under a legal dispute, you are refunded in full.
• For a name sold by NameFew's founder: if anything goes wrong in the first 14 days after delivery, you can return the domain and be refunded in full, without argument.
• Refunds go back in full to the card or bank account you paid with; NameFew keeps none of its commission on a refunded sale. Banks usually show it within 5 to 10 business days. The same rules apply whichever way you paid.
• If two of your purchases in 90 days end in a cancellation or a refund for not giving delivery details, you cannot buy through the checkout for a while.
• Apart from the cases above, a sale is final once the domain has been delivered.
• If you dispute a payment with your bank (a chargeback), we answer it with the record of the sale: these terms as you accepted them, the delivery log and the registry check. Please write to us first; most problems are solved faster that way.

We decide disputes between members, and we may adjust these rules for a particular case in a buyer's favour. They do not remove any right the law gives you.

Selling through the checkout

• When you list a name with a price, you promise that it is yours to sell, that it is free of disputes, liens and court orders, that it does not infringe anyone's trademark, and that you will not sell it anywhere else while a checkout for it is open.
• When a buyer pays, send the name within 3 days and press Mark as sent. If it is not sent within 10 days of payment, the buyer is refunded in full and you get a strike. At 2 strikes, Buy now is switched off for your names; they stay listed for offers. We may stop you selling altogether if a name was not yours to sell.
• The buyer may cancel for a full refund for 24 hours after paying, until you mark the name as sent. Do not transfer the name after a sale is cancelled.

Getting paid as a seller

• Payment processing services for sellers on NameFew are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (collectively, the "Stripe Services Agreement"). By agreeing to these terms or continuing to sell on NameFew, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as Stripe may modify it from time to time. As a condition of NameFew enabling payment processing services through Stripe, you agree to provide NameFew accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorize NameFew to share it and transaction information related to your use of the payment processing services provided by Stripe.
• Selling through the checkout is for US sellers for now.
• To be paid, you set up a payout account with Stripe from My domains. Stripe collects your identity, tax number and bank details on its own pages and processes them under the Stripe Privacy Policy. NameFew can see your name, email address, country and whether payouts are on, never your full tax number or bank account number.
• You authorize NameFew to create your payout account, read its status, create charges for your sales on it, refund them, take its commission as an application fee, set when Stripe pays your balance out to your bank, and reverse a transfer if the sale is refunded because the domain was not delivered, was not yours to sell or was stolen, or if a bank dispute is lost for one of those reasons.
• For each sale through the checkout: the price is settled to your Stripe account, and NameFew keeps only its commission. Each payment becomes available to be paid out to your bank 10 business days (two weeks) after the buyer pays. Stripe then pays it to your bank on its usual schedule.
• You pay only the commission. Stripe's fees, including its payout fees, are NameFew's.
• If a buyer disputes a payment with their bank, NameFew answers the dispute with the records it has for the sale, and you must give NameFew any information it asks for to answer it, within 5 days. NameFew is responsible to Stripe for refunds, disputes and negative balances on sellers' accounts that it cannot recover from you; if NameFew covers such an amount, you owe it to NameFew, and NameFew may recover it from your future sales.
• You are responsible for your own taxes on what you sell. If US law requires NameFew to report your payouts to the IRS (Form 1099), it uses the tax details Stripe collected from you.
• Questions about a sale or a payout go to NameFew, not to Stripe.

Subscriptions

NameFew sells no subscriptions or plans. If it ever does, the price and the rules will be shown before you pay.

Your content

What you write (feedback, listing notes, inquiries) stays yours. You let us show it where you meant it to be shown, such as a listing on the site or an inquiry to its owner. Don't post anything unlawful or anything that isn't yours to post.

The service

NameFew is provided as it is. It may be wrong, slow or offline, and it may change. As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for losses from using it, beyond refunding what you paid for a checkout sale under the rules above.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of the State of Missouri, USA.

Contact and changes

Questions about NameFew or a sale: the contact page lists every way to reach us. In short, write to [email protected], use the feedback form, or call 920-NAMEFEW / +1 (920) 626-3339 if a sale needs it; for a sale, include the checkout number from its page. If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll say so on the site, and a checkout keeps the terms it was started under.