The Nameshift app puts your seller account on your phone: leads, domains, transfers and settings, push notifications for new offers and messages, an optional pincode with Face ID, and English, Dutch and German. It is on the App Store and Google Play.
Offers tend to come in while you are not looking at the dashboard, in the evening or over the weekend, and the first reply can decide whether the conversation goes anywhere. One investor's rule is to reply on the buyer's timeline, even if only with a question. The app puts the lead chat, the offer form and the transfer page on a phone, with a push when something needs you.
Leads, domains and transfers, a tab each
In a lead you chat with the buyer and accept, reject or counter their offer. A counter-offer carries an amount, an offer type (buy now, rent or lease-to-own, and auction when your account has auctions), optional lease-to-own months and an optional expiration. The chat updates live while it is open, and buyer messages are marked as read as you view them.
Next to the chat sit the offers, the buyer details (name, company, email domain, phone number and country), the other leads on the same domain, and three per-lead switches: domain lock, offer expiration and mute.
The domains tab is your whole portfolio, with search and filters for TLD, name length, DNS status, price range and currency. Long-press a domain to start a selection, then run a DNS check, edit prices or delete for every selected domain at once; in the bulk price editor an empty field keeps a domain's current value.
A domain's own page edits the buy-now price and minimum offer, plus monthly rent and the lease-to-own range when your account has those features, and it can override the account's landing-page settings for that one domain.
The transfers tab lists every transfer with its status. When a transfer needs an auth code, you type it in on the phone, and once it is saved the transfer shows the code and the time you submitted it.
A push for the events that need you
A push goes out for a new buyer message, a new offer with its amount, and an offer being accepted, withdrawn or rejected. It also goes out when a domain is sold (outright, by rent or by lease-to-own) and when a transfer needs an auth code, including a reminder and a notice when the code was invalid.
Several messages in a row are batched into one push, message bodies are cut at 150 characters, and every push is titled with the domain name, so the lock screen already says which name it is about. Tapping a push opens the lead or transfer it belongs to, even from a cold start or before you have signed in; the app holds the tap until login completes.
On first sign-in the app asks "Never miss a deal" before the system permission dialog, and if you decline, a card in Settings lets you turn notifications on later. There is also a mute switch per lead, and signing out unregisters the device.
Pincode, Face ID and three languages
A lead holds buyer details, so the app can be locked behind a 4-digit pincode. It is off by default. Turn it on in Settings, choose when the app re-locks (immediately, or after 1, 5, 15 or 60 minutes in the background) and unlock with Face ID, Touch ID or a fingerprint. After five wrong pincodes the lock screen refuses entry for one hour.
The pincode never leaves the device and is kept only as a SHA-256 hash in secure storage; biometric unlock falls back to the app's own pincode rather than the device passcode. If you forget it, sign out and sign back in with your email and password.
The app comes in English, Dutch and German, follows the device language and can be switched in Settings. On iPad, and in any window 768 points or wider, lists and details sit side by side: leads next to the chat, domains next to the detail page. With a hardware keyboard on iPad, Return sends a message and Shift+Return adds a line.
One account, on the web and in your pocket
The app shows your billing details and bank accounts and lets you make one primary; signing up, adding a bank account and changing your password are done on the dashboard, and everything about leads, domains and transfers is in both. The app is for sellers, so a Nameshift seller account is what gets you past the sign-in screen.
Get the app on the App Store or Google Play, sign in with your seller account, and your portfolio comes with you. Countering an offer from a train, with the buyer's company in front of you, is the part we like most.
If you are not selling on Nameshift yet, the sellers page explains how listing and commissions work.
