IS IT YOURS OR THEIRS
Can you take it with you, every platform side by side
The domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.
23 PLATFORMS ANSWERED · SORTED BY NAME, NOT BY BETTER
Amazon AssociatesNothing Amazon-supplied travels with you: Amazon content on your site must be deleted or destroyed once Amazon says it is no longer available for your use.Amazon content must be deleted · source · checked 2026-09-07
Amazon KDPThe manuscript can be sold elsewhere under a nonexclusive licence, but no reader list travels: Amazon owns all customer data.Book yes, readers no · source · checked 2026-09-07
Anthropic APINothing to port from Anthropic's side: API inputs and outputs are auto-deleted within 30 days, so the only lasting copy is the one you store yourself.Privacy Center, standard retention timeframe for API users · source · checked 2026-09-07
beehiivSubscriber data and post content export to .csv from publication settings; the download link stays valid for 24 hours before the export must be re-requested.CSV export, link valid 24 hours · source · checked 2026-09-07
CloudflareA registered domain can be moved to any other registrar using an auth code Cloudflare generates in the dashboard.Domain leaves with an auth code · source · checked 2026-09-07
DigitalOceanSnapshots and backups cannot be downloaded off the platform. Getting data out means copying it yourself with third-party tools such as rsync or SFTP.Snapshots cannot be downloaded · source · checked 2026-09-07
EzoicContent travels with you, but performance, optimization and benchmarking data, algorithm outputs and models stay Ezoic's. No export right is stated.Derived data stays with Ezoic · source · checked 2026-09-07
GhostPosts and pages export as JSON, members as CSV, themes as ZIP and post analytics as CSV, at any time from Ghost Admin.JSON, CSV, ZIP export · source · checked 2026-09-07
Google AdSenseReports export to Google Sheets, XLSX or CSV. The site, content and audience stay on your own hosting; only the AdSense account itself is tied to Google.Reports export to CSV · source · checked 2026-09-07
HetznerThe IP address does not travel with you: no claim to a specific IP, and Hetzner may reassign it with prior written notice.IP address is not yours · source · checked 2026-09-07
Lemon SqueezyThe export window closes with the account: after termination there is no access to the service or the data stored in it.Export window · source · checked 2026-09-07
MediavineThe site and its content leave with the publisher; the earnings and analytics history does not. Dashboard access ends the moment the agreement does.History stays behind · source · checked 2026-09-07
MonumetricPublisher walks away with the site intact; on termination the only handover is stripping Monumetric ad tags, code and links from the property.Leave by removing tags · source · checked 2026-09-07
Motion InvestThe asset leaves the platform at sale: the transfer team moves the site or channel to the buyer and swaps up to 20 affiliate links on websites.Asset transfer · source · checked 2026-09-07
NamecheapA suspended domain is the exception: if it cannot be unsuspended, it cannot be transferred out at all.Suspended domains cannot move · source · checked 2026-09-07
NetlifyNo data-export or return-of-data clause in the agreement. Backups of all Customer Content are the customer's own responsibility and expense.Self-Serve Subscription Agreement, s.7.2 (Oct 2025) · source · checked 2026-09-07
OpenAI APINothing is handed back on the way out: when the agreement terminates OpenAI deletes all Customer Content from its systems within thirty days.Content deleted, not exported · source · checked 2026-09-07
PayhipThe full customer list exports to CSV from the admin dashboard with one Export button.Danh sach khach xuat CSV bang mot nut · source · checked 2026-09-07
PorkbunThe domain can be transferred out to another registrar, but not during the first 60 days after the initial registration at Porkbun.Transfer out · source · checked 2026-09-07
RaptiveOn exit Raptive owes only commercially reasonable efforts to hand back the subscriber lists it holds, not a guaranteed export.Portability · source · checked 2026-09-07
SubstackThe subscriber list exports from the subscribers page, with all columns or visible columns only. Subscriber names cannot be included in the file.List exports, names do not · source · checked 2026-09-07
VercelDomains registered with Vercel can be moved out: the dashboard issues the authorization code you hand to the new registrar.Domain transfer out is self-serve · source · checked 2026-09-07
WordPress.comThe subscriber list can be downloaded as a CSV from the Jetpack Newsletter screen and imported elsewhere.Email list export · source · checked 2026-09-07
The other questions
Ten questions get asked of every platform here. This page answers one of them.
Where you can sign up25 platforms
Where you can be paid29 platforms
Minimum age28 platforms
What you are paid in29 platforms
Ways to get paid26 platforms
Minimum payout29 platforms
Fee taken out of the payout29 platforms
Time from earning to money in hand28 platforms
How a balance can be lost28 platforms
Who is legally on the hook30 platforms
What it really costs to start23 platforms
What it costs to keep alive20 platforms
The gate before it pays anything14 platforms
How long before the first payment17 platforms
Who owns what you build22 platforms
Can it be sold24 platforms
What takes it all away25 platforms
Why this page is sorted by name
Putting these in an order would mean deciding that one answer beats another, and on most of these questions that depends entirely on who is reading. A lower cash-out bar is better if you want the money soon and worse if it arrives as a gift card. A single payout method is fine until it is the one that does not work in your country.
So the rows sit in alphabetical order and the differences are left where you can see them. Every figure carries the page it came from and the day it was read. Found one that has moved? Tell us.