Escrow.com
Escrow.com is a licensed online escrow and transaction-management service that protects buyers and sellers in high-value online and offline transactions. It is not a business broker, marketplace, or buyer-seller matching platform; instead, it acts as an independent third party that holds the buyer’s funds until the seller delivers the agreed asset or service and the buyer has an opportunity to inspect and approve it. Its standard process is straightforward: the parties agree on terms, the buyer deposits funds with Escrow.com, the seller transfers the asset, the buyer approves delivery, and Escrow.com releases the funds to the seller. This arrangement protects buyers from paying for assets they never receive and protects sellers from chargebacks and payment-default risk once the funds are secured.
Founded in 1999 by Fidelity National Financial and acquired by Freelancer Limited in 2015, Escrow.com is headquartered in San Francisco and operates through Internet Escrow Services, Inc. The company emphasizes its regulated structure: it is licensed, bonded, and audited, with escrow or money-services licenses across U.S. jurisdictions. Escrow.com reports that it has secured more than $8.3 billion in transactions for more than 3.9 million customers, a scale that has made it especially well known in the domain-name industry, where it has processed transactions involving marquee domain names such as uber.com, snapchat.com, and wordpress.com.
Beyond domain transfers, Escrow.com supports vehicles, electronics, general merchandise, luxury items, business assets, and milestone-based service contracts. Its standout feature for digital-asset marketplaces is its technology layer: Escrow Pay, Escrow Offer, and the Escrow API allow marketplaces, classified sites, e-commerce platforms, and developers to embed protected payments and offer negotiation workflows into their own products. For website, SaaS, newsletter, e-commerce, or domain transactions, Escrow.com can be particularly useful when the buyer and seller have found each other independently but need a neutral system to manage money release around staged asset delivery and inspection. Its core value proposition is trust: it provides a regulated payment-control layer for transactions where a normal credit-card payment, PayPal transfer, or wire sent directly to a stranger would expose one party to unacceptable risk.
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