See a Sample Report (PDF)
See What a Scan Returns
Run the Numbers
Read the LatestRegistrar, Expiry, DNS.
Who the domain is registered through, when it expires, and whose nameservers answer for it. The login behind those records can move your website and your email, so it had better be yours.
Free · Instant · Reads public records only
Do You Actually Own Your Own Marketing?
Your domain, your website, your ad accounts, your data. If the answer to any of them is “the agency handles that,” run this scan. It reads the public record and shows you, in about ten seconds, what a stranger can tell about who really holds your keys.
Ownership ScanSample data
REGISTRARGODADDYEXPIRES IN 14 MOLOOKS RIGHT
DNSNS1.YOURAGENCY.COMNOT A MAINSTREAM HOSTWHOSE LOGIN?
ADS PAYERGOOGLE VERIFIED"XYZ MEDIA LLC"NOT YOUR NAME
GA4 TAGG-8KL…WHOSE ACCOUNT?CHECK OWNER
EMAILGOOGLE WORKSPACEADMIN UNKNOWNCONFIRM LOGIN
What it reads
Six Public Records. Ten Seconds.
Everything the scan reports is verified from the outside, from records anyone could read if they knew where to look. Nothing is estimated.
Hosting, Email, the Tag Stack.
Where the site is served from, who routes your company email, and every analytics, ads and call-tracking tag installed on your homepage, with the actual container IDs.
The Half No Scanner Can See.
Who holds Admin inside Google Ads, GA4 and Meta is not public, and any tool that claims to see it is guessing. The scan hands you a prefilled link and a one-minute check for each instead.
The scan
Run It on Your Business. Right Now.
About ten seconds. We read only the public record: registrar, DNS, hosting, mail routing, and the tags on your own homepage. We never log into anything and never touch your accounts.
Ownership is checkable before it is ever a problem.
Why it matters
You Would Never Rent the Keys to Your Own House.
Most owners find out who really controls their domain, their ad account and their analytics on the worst possible day: the day they try to leave. The registrar login is the agency’s. The ad account was never theirs. The tracking history walks out the door.
Every one of those is checkable today, from the outside, for free. That is what this scan is for.
What the record gives away
Three Tells That You Are a Tenant.
The Payer Name on Your Own Ads.
Google identity-verifies every advertiser and publishes the payer name in its Ads Transparency Center. Search your business there: the name shown should be your legal name. If it is your agency’s LLC, the verification, and usually the account, is theirs. One search, public, and almost nobody knows it is visible.
Nameservers Branded to Somebody Else.
DNS at a mainstream registrar or host is normal. DNS at an agency’s own branded nameservers means their login decides where your website and email point. The relationship ends, and your domain takes instructions from somebody you no longer pay.
A Tracking Tag You Cannot Log Into.
The GA4 and Tag Manager IDs on your site are containers your customer data flows into, every day. If they live inside the agency’s account, years of your own history leave when they do. The scan reads the IDs off your homepage; the checklist shows you where to confirm who owns them.
You Own the Account. Always Have.
Efferent Media has been family owned and run out of Lindenhurst since 2011, and one rule has never moved: the client owns the ad account, the analytics, the domain and the data. We build it and run it. It is yours.
This scan exists because that is not the industry norm, and because the fastest way to show you the difference is to let you check for yourself.
FAQ
Asked Before Every Scan.
Straight answers. If something is not here, ask us on the audit call.
Is this safe to run?
Yes. The scan reads only public records: the domain registry, public DNS, the network a site is served from, and the public homepage anyone can visit. It never logs into anything, never touches your accounts, and never sends anything to your website except one ordinary page request.
How is this accurate?
Every automated line is a verified read of a public record, shown with its value. Anything we could not read says so in those words. And the things no scanner can see from outside, like who holds Admin inside Google Ads, are never guessed: you get a prefilled link and a one-minute check instead.
Why is it free?
Because client ownership is the thing this agency is built on, and the fastest way to show you is to let you check your own setup yourself. If the scan shows everything in your name, you got a free confirmation.
What should I do about a flag?
Ask whoever set it up. A flag is a question about who holds a login, not an accusation. Good agencies answer it in one email. The dangerous ones are the ones who will not.
What do you do with what I type?
The scan runs on the domain you enter and shows the results here on the page. We read public records about the domain and nothing about you.
Can you fix it if something is wrong?
Yes. Moving a domain, an ad account or analytics into your own name is routine work, and it is exactly the kind of cleanup we do in the first month with a new client. Start with the free marketing audit and mention the scan.
Free · Instant
Ten Seconds to Know Whose Keys They Are.
The scan reads the public record. The checklist covers the rest. Both are free, and neither logs into anything.