Enter the address. We read what the site is built on, who the domain is registered with and where it is hosted, then tell you whether you could take it with you if you left. Free, and no email needed to see the result.
The domain record. Which registrar holds yourbusiness.com, since when, when it renews, and who the registrant is when it is not hidden behind a privacy service. Nameservers show who really controls where the domain points.
What the site is built on. WordPress and custom code can move. Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy Builder, Duda and vendor platforms like ProSites, DentalQore, PBHS and Scorpion cannot. We read the code, not the marketing.
Where it is hosted. The hosting company or platform behind the address, from the server's own headers and network record. If Cloudflare is in front, we say so.
Two of the five points only you can answer: whether you hold the owner login, and what the contract says. The result shows how to confirm each in a few minutes, and the checklist PDF walks you through it.
Enter the address. In about ten seconds you see what it is built on, who the domain is registered with, where it is hosted, and whether you could take it with you.
The five-point check
The result page, plus the printable five-point checklist: what to ask your agency in writing, and the 30-day plan if you are renting.
We read the public domain record, the site's own code and its DNS. Facts are shown as found. The login and contract checks are yours to make; this is not legal advice.
Page one of the checklist. A website is yours when all five are true. Miss one and you are renting, whatever the invoice says.
Your name on the domain. Registered to your business, in a registrar account you can log in to. Not the agency's account, not a former office manager's, not the vendor's.
The site files are yours to take. The site can be exported and run somewhere else. WordPress moves. Most builders and vendor platforms do not.
The hosting account is in your name. Whoever pays the hosting company directly, and can log in, owns the account. If the agency pays and bills you, it is theirs.
You hold the owner login. Administrator on WordPress, the owning account on a builder. If you can change words but not add a page or a user, you do not have it.
The contract says the site is yours. A clause that assigns the design, copy and code to you and hands over the domain and files on termination. Search it for 'license' and 'termination'.
Two ways this ends, both priced on the page. Either way you keep every login: the domain in a registrar account you own, the hosting login, a WordPress Administrator login, and a full export any time you ask. No contract, month to month.
A new WordPress site, live in 3 days, hosting from $99 a month. Domain, hosting and site logins in your name from day one. We send the domain transfer request to your current vendor and handle the redirects.
Ziwi Care: managed hosting, updates, backups, unlimited small edits, a new post every week and a reporting dashboard. Hosting only is $99. Month to month; you keep every login either way.
Prices and plan terms published here are exact and match our internal pricing catalog; they are not promotional or subject to change after a sales call. Ad spend is billed separately and paid directly to the platforms.
Short answers. If yours is not here, email hello@ziwimarketing.com and a real person answers, including when the answer is no.
Three public sources: the site's own code and headers (which platform or vendor built it), the public domain record (registrar, registration and renewal dates, and the registrant where it is not hidden by a privacy service) and the domain's DNS (nameservers, the server address and the email provider). Nothing is guessed. If a fact is not public, the result says so and tells you how to confirm it yourself.
Any of three things: the site is on a platform that does not export (Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy Builder, Duda, ProSites, Scorpion and most vendor systems), the domain is registered to the vendor or agency rather than to you, or the vendor controls the hosting and the domain's nameservers. In each case, leaving means starting over, and the domain moves only if they release it.
No. Most domains hide the registrant behind a privacy service, which is sensible. It just means the public record cannot show whose it is, so the one thing to confirm is that you can log in to the registrar named in the result. If your agency holds that login, ask for the account to be transferred to you in writing.
The site can always move, which is the hard part solved: files plus database export and run on any host. Whether it is yours still depends on the domain, hosting and login being in your name. Vendor-built WordPress sites (DentalQore, PBHS and similar) are hosted and controlled by the vendor, and the contract decides whether the files leave with you.
The result page emailed to you, plus the printable four-page checklist: the five-point check with how to confirm each, six questions to send your agency in writing, and the 30-day plan if you are renting. Two short follow-up emails over the following week, each with a link to stop them, and that is it.
With Ziwi the rebuild is $0 on a 12-month plan with hosting from $99 a month, $1,000 for a designed template, or $2,500 custom. Live in 3 days. The domain goes into a registrar account in your name, the hosting login is yours, and we send the transfer request to your current vendor. Same prices as the pricing page, no quote call.
A website maintenance plan at $299 a month per location: managed hosting, updates and security patches, backups, unlimited small edits, a new post every week and a reporting dashboard, first month free. Hosting only is $99. Both are month to month, and you keep every login either way.
We store the address, the result and the time it was run, so the result page keeps working and we can improve the detection. No email or name is stored unless you ask for the checklist. Results are not shared or published.