Based in San Francisco, CA,[1] Escrow.com was founded in 1999 by Fidelity National Financial.

[1] Escrow.com was founded in 1999 by Fidelity National Financial in response to Bank of America's four million dollar purchase a few years earlier of Loans.com.

Escrow.com is a strategic partner with the United States Department of Commerce[7] in support of President Obama’s National Export Initiative.

[citation needed] The company has been a guest blogger on ‘Tradeology’ – the official blog of the International Trade Administration[8] as well as a featured writer in various magazines, including the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) News,[9] EXPORT Magazine,[10] and contributed towards having the term ‘Escrow Service'[11] added to the third edition of the Trade Finance Guide, published by The International Trade Administration (ITA).

[12] The company works extensively in an effort to prevent online fraud and is a resource for the Internet Crime Complaint Center,[13] a multi-agency task force made up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)[citation needed] The escrow company takes the buyer's funds, verifies the deposit to the seller, and transfers the funds to the seller after the buyer receives the merchandise, thus protecting the interests of both the buyer and seller.