diff --git a/scripts/resolver/service/snrc-resolve.py b/scripts/resolver/service/snrc-resolve.py
index 4d33d3d73..0abc54ad7 100755
--- a/scripts/resolver/service/snrc-resolve.py
+++ b/scripts/resolver/service/snrc-resolve.py
@@ -893,8 +893,9 @@ def owned_by(address: str, offset: int = 0):
     Enumeration is read off the ERC-721 registrar, so a name acquired by
     transfer counts, and a lapsed one stays listed until re-registered - it is
     reported with its `status`, not filtered. `inUse` is what a recovery scan
-    asks; holding a name is only one way to be in use, so the nonce and balance
-    it is derived from are reported too.
+    asks, derived from this chain's nonce and balance and the names above: an
+    account holding only other tokens is not seen, and neither is one used on
+    another chain.
     """
     if not is_address(address):
         return 400, {
@@ -919,7 +920,7 @@ def owned_by(address: str, offset: int = 0):
             "configuredTlds": [],
         }
 
-    now = int(time.time())
+    now = chain_now()
     names, truncated = [], False
     for tld, registrar in configured.items():
         grace = grace_period(registrar)
diff --git a/scripts/resolver/service/test_snrc_resolve.py b/scripts/resolver/service/test_snrc_resolve.py
index 52912d682..3d036b84b 100644
--- a/scripts/resolver/service/test_snrc_resolve.py
+++ b/scripts/resolver/service/test_snrc_resolve.py
@@ -1048,12 +1048,13 @@ class OwnedByTests(unittest.TestCase):
     ALICE = 0x9C0257114EB9399A2985F8E75DAD7600C5D89FE3824FFA99EC1C3EB8BF3B0501
 
     def setUp(self):
-        self._saved = (snrc.REGISTRARS, snrc.eth_call, snrc.rpc)
+        self._saved = (snrc.REGISTRARS, snrc.eth_call, snrc.rpc, snrc.chain_now)
         snrc.REGISTRARS = {"testing": self.REGISTRAR, "simplex": ""}
         snrc.rpc = lambda method, params: "0x0"
+        snrc.chain_now = lambda: int(time.time())
 
     def tearDown(self):
-        snrc.REGISTRARS, snrc.eth_call, snrc.rpc = self._saved
+        snrc.REGISTRARS, snrc.eth_call, snrc.rpc, snrc.chain_now = self._saved
 
     def _chain(self, held, expires, label=b"alice"):
         def call(to, data):
@@ -1125,6 +1126,15 @@ class OwnedByTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(status, 400)
         self.assertEqual(body["error"], "badAddress")
 
+    def test_status_follows_the_block_clock_not_the_host(self):
+        """A name the host clock still calls registered is in grace once the
+        chain has passed its expiry."""
+        expires = int(time.time()) + 86400
+        snrc.eth_call = self._chain(1, expires)
+        snrc.chain_now = lambda: expires + 1
+        _, body = snrc.owned_by(self.ADDR)
+        self.assertEqual(body["names"][0]["status"], "grace")
+
     def test_a_negative_offset_is_refused(self):
         snrc.eth_call = self._chain(1, int(time.time()) + 86400)
         status, body = snrc.owned_by(self.ADDR, -1)
diff --git a/src/Simplex/Messaging/Names/Record.hs b/src/Simplex/Messaging/Names/Record.hs
index 5f8feecd8..51c20e28b 100644
--- a/src/Simplex/Messaging/Names/Record.hs
+++ b/src/Simplex/Messaging/Names/Record.hs
@@ -92,10 +92,11 @@ data NameRegistration
     NRReserved {reservedReason :: NameReservedReason}
   deriving (Eq, Show)
 
--- | What the registry holds for an address: the names it owns, and whether
--- the account has been used at all. Holding a name is only one way to be in
--- use, so a recovery scan that reads only `ownNames` hands out an account its
--- owner is already using.
+-- | What the registry holds for an address: the names it owns, and whether the
+-- account is in use, which holding a name is only one way to be. `ownInUse` is
+-- what the resolver could see on its own chain - the nonce, the balance and the
+-- names - so an account used only for other tokens, or on another chain, reads
+-- as unused.
 data OwnedNames = OwnedNames
   { ownNames :: [OwnedName],
     ownInUse :: Bool,