Take control of the digital assets your business depends on.
MCC helps businesses identify, organize, transfer, and protect the domains, websites, accounts, data, analytics, listings, credentials, and vendor relationships that support daily operations and marketing.
A company should not discover during a dispute, acquisition, rebrand, or vendor exit that it does not control its own digital infrastructure.
- Domains
- Websites
- Accounts
- Access
- Analytics
- Vendor Transitions
Digital ownership problems often remain invisible until something goes wrong.
A website may carry the company's name while the hosting account belongs to a vendor. A domain may be registered under an employee's personal email. A former agency may control analytics, business listings, or administrator permissions. Passwords may be shared without a clear record of who has access.
MCC helps create visibility and a practical transition plan. The objective is to place appropriate assets in client-controlled accounts, document responsibilities, reduce unnecessary dependence, and establish a cleaner long-term operating model.
When this service matters
The domain is not clearly controlled by the business.
Registration, billing, recovery information, DNS access, or renewal responsibility may sit with an employee or vendor.
Website access is incomplete.
The client can edit content but lacks ownership of hosting, source files, repositories, databases, administrative accounts, or backups.
A vendor relationship is ending.
The business needs to transfer assets, data, credentials, documentation, and responsibilities without creating avoidable disruption.
Google and analytics accounts are fragmented.
Business Profiles, Analytics, Search Console, advertising, tag management, and related accounts may have inconsistent administrators or no clear owner.
Credentials are being shared informally.
Passwords are being sent through email or text, multiple people use one login, and access cannot be reviewed or removed cleanly.
The company cannot produce a complete asset inventory.
No central record explains what exists, where it is hosted, who owns it, who pays for it, who administers it, or what happens if a vendor leaves.
Visibility, control, and a practical transition plan
Digital Asset Inventory
Create a structured record of domains, websites, hosting, repositories, data, analytics, business listings, communication systems, software, accounts, vendors, and renewal responsibilities.
Ownership and Access Audit
Determine the known owner, administrator, billing contact, recovery contact, and user permissions associated with each asset.
Domain, DNS, and Hosting Coordination
Plan and coordinate domain registrar, DNS, hosting, email, SSL, and related transitions while documenting dependencies and approval points.
Website and Source-Asset Transfer
Organize the transfer of website administration, repositories, source files, media, database access, backups, licenses, and deployment information when available.
Google Ecosystem Administration
Clarify ownership and access for Google Workspace, Business Profiles, Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager, advertising accounts, and related tools.
Vendor Transition Planning
Create a phased exit or migration plan that addresses access, data, intellectual property, approvals, communication, timing, backups, and continuity.
Credential and Permission Structure
Move away from informal password sharing toward named accounts, least-privilege access, MFA, password-management procedures, and documented offboarding.
Client-Owned Account Architecture
Establish accounts under the client's control wherever practical, with MCC and other vendors receiving role-appropriate access rather than ownership.
Documentation and Handoff
Create an ownership register, transition record, administrative map, access checklist, and ongoing maintenance responsibilities.
Post-Transition Governance
Define who reviews permissions, renewals, vendor access, backups, billing, and administrative ownership after the immediate transition is complete.
Typical deliverables may include
- Digital asset inventory
- Ownership and access matrix
- Domain and DNS record
- Website administration map
- Vendor dependency map
- Transition-risk assessment
- Migration sequence
- Pre-transition backup checklist
- Account-transfer checklist
- Credential-handling procedure
- Administrator and permission register
- Client approval matrix
- Vendor offboarding checklist
- Post-transition validation report
- Renewal and billing register
- Ongoing digital-governance SOP
Intended outcomes
Clearer Ownership
The business has a documented understanding of what it owns, controls, administers, and pays for.
Reduced Vendor Dependence
Outside providers receive the access needed to perform their role without unnecessarily owning the client's core accounts.
Safer Transitions
Dependencies, approvals, backups, access, and sequencing are reviewed before major changes occur.
Stronger Continuity
The company is less vulnerable when an employee, contractor, agency, platform, or vendor relationship changes.
Common ways to structure the work
Digital Ownership Audit
Inventory assets, document ownership and access, identify risks, and prioritize corrective actions.
Vendor Exit Planning
Develop the transition scope, responsibilities, timeline, asset list, backup requirements, and communication process before the relationship ends.
Migration and Transfer Coordination
Coordinate approved account, domain, website, analytics, listing, and access changes with the client and relevant providers.
Ongoing Digital Governance
Maintain or periodically review ownership, permissions, renewals, vendor access, and documentation.
Related MCC work
Multi-Location Eye-Care Group
A multi-location engagement involving website and account control, domain and platform questions, local listings, analytics, vendor transition, and the long-term ownership structure of digital assets.
Marty Clarke Realty
A client-journey and content platform built around controlled domains, search infrastructure, analytics, and an owned digital presence.
Ownership, access, security, and legal rights are related—but not identical.
- MCC can document known ownership, access, billing, administration, dependencies, and operational control.
- MCC does not determine legal title when ownership is disputed.
- Contract interpretation, trademark disputes, intellectual-property disputes, and legal demands should be handled by qualified counsel.
- MCC cannot guarantee recovery of an account when the platform, registrant, prior vendor, or legal owner refuses access.
- Platform recovery processes and review timelines are controlled by the platform.
- Migration timing and downtime risk depend on the existing environment and third-party providers.
- Credentials should not be collected through the public website contact form.
- Sensitive access should be transferred through an approved password manager or another secure process.
- MFA and named-user access should be used wherever supported.
- Client approval is required before material account, domain, DNS, email, hosting, or permission changes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a digital ownership audit?
A digital ownership audit creates a structured view of the assets and accounts on which the business depends. It documents what exists, where it is hosted, who is listed as owner or administrator, who pays for it, who has access, how recovery works, and what risks should be addressed.
Can MCC recover accounts that we do not control?
MCC can help identify the appropriate recovery process, organize supporting information, coordinate with platforms or vendors, and reduce further risk. Recovery cannot be guaranteed because access decisions may be controlled by the platform, registrant, prior vendor, contract, or legal owner.
Will the client own the website and accounts after an MCC project?
MCC's default operating principle is to use client-controlled accounts and assets wherever practical and consistent with the signed agreement. Specific intellectual-property rights, software licenses, third-party services, and deliverables must be defined in the applicable contract and statement of work.
Can MCC coordinate a vendor transition without downtime?
MCC can reduce avoidable risk through inventory, backups, dependency mapping, staged changes, approvals, and testing. No provider should guarantee zero downtime because the outcome can depend on third-party systems, missing access, unknown configurations, or platform behavior.
How does MCC handle passwords and credentials?
MCC should use named user accounts, MFA, least-privilege permissions, and a client-approved password manager wherever possible. Credentials should not be sent through the public contact form or stored casually in project documents.
Does MCC resolve legal ownership or trademark disputes?
No. MCC provides operational and technical consulting. Disputed legal ownership, contract interpretation, trademark rights, intellectual-property rights, and formal demands should be handled by qualified legal counsel.
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Do not wait for a vendor crisis to find out what the business controls.
Start with a clear inventory of the accounts, assets, permissions, and dependencies supporting the company.