Fort Worth has a growing base of entrepreneurs running businesses that exist almost entirely online — e-commerce stores, content platforms, domain portfolios, and yes, NFT collections. These assets are easy for a traditional estate plan to overlook entirely, because they don’t fit neatly into “real estate” or “bank accounts.”
Why these need specific attention
- Domain names are registered assets with real resale value — and registrars have their own transfer and recovery processes separate from any court order.
- Online businesses (Shopify stores, Etsy shops, ad-monetized content) generate ongoing revenue that stops the moment access is lost, not just at the point of transfer.
- NFTs live in crypto wallets and carry the same self-custody risk as any other crypto asset — no key, no recovery.
What to include in an estate plan
- A documented list of domains, business accounts, and platforms — with enough detail for a fiduciary to find them, without exposing sensitive credentials in the document itself
- Clear instructions: should the business continue operating, be sold, or be wound down?
- A named person (often the digital executor) with both the legal authority and practical know-how to manage a transition
For business owners specifically, this is worth revisiting any time a new revenue stream or platform gets added — not just once during initial estate planning.
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This is part of our series on digital estate planning for Fort Worth families.
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