Freehold

Going Freehold

You've been renting your own website. We'd like to hand you the deed.

This is for a website you already have and pay for month after month. Starting from nothing instead? See how it works.

Already paying monthly?

Email us your web address, and we'll rebuild it free, so you can see

One line, nothing attached. That's the whole thing to start. We look at your site with a designer’s eye, then build you a new version from your own content and send you a private link, with a plain note on what we did differently and why.

It's free, and we'll be straight with you. If your current setup is genuinely serving you well, we'll say so and leave you to it. Most website plans are monthly, and they never end. On many of them, the site itself comes down the day you stop paying. If yours is one of those, there's a calmer way, and we do the scary part for you.

A few good providers do offer free export and a domain in your own name. We just go further, and charge nothing to run it.

The steps

You already have a site. We hand you a better one you own

Every step is yours to stop at. Nothing about your current site changes while you look, and there's never any pressure to go further.

Send the address

Email us your web address. One line, nothing attached. That's the entire application, and it commits you to nothing.

You do this

See it rebuilt, free

We build you a new, original site from your own content, your words, your logo, your photos, everything your current site does, at a private link, with a short note on what we did differently and why. Your current provider isn't contacted, nothing about your live site changes, and you've committed to nothing. And if your current setup is genuinely good, we say so instead.

Free, always

You decide, freely

You look at it on your own time and show whoever you like. Keep it and it's a flat $800, once. Not for you? Say so, it comes down, and you've spent nothing. Saying no is always fine.

Your call

Going live, guided

When you're ready, we help you point your web address at the new site, one clear step at a time. Your old site keeps running until the new one is live, so there's never a gap. You leave your old plan whenever suits you, in your own time.

Together

It's yours, in plain writing

The site is yours, your domain stays in your name, hosting is free, and you can take the whole thing to any host any time, free. Nothing is monthly, ever.

Yours
The honest answers

The questions people actually ask

One question, one plain answer. No fine print underneath.

The question The answer
“Do I actually own it?” AnswerYes, outright. The site is yours, your domain stays registered in your name, and you can take the whole thing to any host any time, free. That's what freehold means.
“Am I locked in?” AnswerNo. Nothing monthly, no contract, no notice period. The proof is simple: you can leave for free whenever you like, and take everything with you.
“Isn’t $800 a lot next to a monthly plan?” AnswerNot once you add it up. Most monthly plans cost more than $800 within the first year, and never stop. Some only hand the site over after two full years of unbroken payments. With us it's yours the day you say yes, and free to leave the same day. And if monthly is what suits, you can pay the $800 off the same way, $50 or $100 a month until it's cleared, like the last months of a small mortgage. Then it ends.
“What about my current plan?” AnswerYou leave it in your own time, once your new site is live. Most plans let you go any time. If yours is a fixed term, tell us and we'll help you work out when you can, with no rush.
“Will my website go offline while we move?” AnswerNo. Your new site is fully live before your web address points at it, and your current one stays up in the meantime. There's no gap where you have no website.
“I already paid for this site.” AnswerWhat you paid for comes with you. Your words, your photos, your story, all of it lives in the new site. Only the rented shell stays behind.
What it costs

A flat $800, paid once, and then never again

The rebuild, the hosting, and the guided go-live are all included, at one flat price. That's a few months of a typical monthly plan, paid once, and then nothing. Most pay-monthly website services here run between about $80 and $300 a month, and they never stop. Most cost more every year than our site costs once.

$800once, and then never again
Going Freehold, one-off The new site, hosted, and guided live. One flat price, by one published rule.
$800
Or pay it off like a mortgage Keep a monthly payment, if that's what your budget knows: $50 or $100 a month, your choice, or we simply match what you pay now. When it adds up to $800, the payments stop forever and the site is freehold. No interest, no extra, and it was yours the whole time.
$50 or $100
Seeing it rebuilt Always free, even if you decide to stay where you are.
Free
Hosting, forever Held for you, with nothing monthly, ever.
$0
Your domain, in your name Registered to you, at your own registrar. We never hold it.
Yours
To leave, any time Take the whole site and your domain to any host. Nothing held back, no charge.
Free

A website you can leave for free, instantly, with everything, can't trap you. That's the whole point.

Ready to start?

Send us your web address

That one line is the whole application. No forms, no calls, no account. We rebuild your site free and send you the link, and we do the scary part for you. Saying no is always fine.

Email us any time: studio@freehold.org.nz. Every message comes straight to us, and we reply to all of them.
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