However, in today's Internet superhighway generation, shouldn't we take succession of digital properties into serious account? Yes, I believe we should.
Time has changed, and now we're presented with a lot more varieties of new generation properties to be taken care, but many people are treating the importance and weightage of digital properties for granted.
For example, if you own a domain name of PR6 or above with constantly high site traffic volume, this is definitely a valuable property that can generate some big greens if sold.
If you're doing online internet marketing, or making money online, most probably you would have a PayPal account with real cash. Recently with paid blog posting and blog advertising getting popularized, a lot of bloggers have big greens in their PayPal.
If you have a website generating incomes from Google Adsense context-sensitive advertising, this is also an inheritable property. There could be a lot more other similar programmes that are subscribing to.
What about email account? With webmail operators offering free and large storage capacity, you are most likely having some important emails stored; not surprisingly, account passwords.
The above scenarios are just some examples to illustrate the importance of new age digital properties. I'm sure these examples would inspire you relating them to some other important digital properties that you own.
What do these examples have in common? They all require a valid and authorized login account for management. Without it, it's definitely hard, or in some cases impossible, to legally transfer the account to new registrant. Not sure if you're of, but Yahoo for example, doesn't allow any account survivorship or transferability.
As quoted from Yahoo! Terms of Service:
No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your Yahoo! account is non-transferable and any rights to your Yahoo! ID or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.
Wouldn't you want your successor to have access to them? Else, all your hard efforts will vanish without proper succession.
Just I thought, you should be aware of this ;)
