Do You Own Your Website? A Business Owner’s Checklist
Many business owners only ask “Do I own my website?” after something has already gone wrong. A developer stops responding. An agency relationship ends. The website needs an urgent repair. A form stops delivering inquiries. Someone needs to move the site, but nobody knows who controls the domain, hosting account, or WordPress administrator access. The important issue is not only legal ownership. It is also practical control: can your business access, maintain, protect, move, and improve the website without being completely dependent on one vendor? A business website usually depends on several separate assets and accounts, including the domain, hosting, WordPress installation, files, database, content,