No. A Wix or GoDaddy builder site cannot be picked up and dropped onto another host. You can take your domain, your text, your photos, and your customer list. The site itself has to be built again somewhere else.
What Wix says in its own help center
Wix has a help page called “Exporting or Embedding Your Wix Site Elsewhere.” It says your site must run on Wix’s servers. The site is built on Wix software, and that software does not leave with you. That page carries no update date.
The same page says the content you build on Wix belongs to you, under the Wix Terms of Use. So the words and the pictures are yours to take. The machinery holding them up is not.
Who owns what is a contract question, not a technical one. This is not legal advice, and the rules change from state to state. If somebody else built your site, or you are in a disagreement over who owns it, read your own contract and ask an attorney licensed in your state.
What you can carry out the door
Some of it comes out cleanly. These are the exports both companies document:
- Contacts. The Wix page “Wix Contacts: Exporting Your Contacts” says “You can export up to 50,000 contacts at a time,” as a CSV file, and that only the site owner can do it. That page carries no update date.
- Saved lists of items. The Wix page “CMS: Exporting Content from Your Collection” covers exporting a whole collection, only the items that match a filter, or just the field names, again as a CSV file. That page carries no update date.
- Store products. On the GoDaddy side, “Export my online store products into a .csv file” covers pulling a Websites + Marketing store list out as a .csv file. That page carries no update date either.
- Photos you uploaded. The Wix page “Wix Media: Downloading Files from the Media Manager” says “You can choose to download a single file or multiple files at once.” It also says “Only images and videos that you have uploaded can be downloaded. Free Wix and Shutterstock media cannot be downloaded.” So the stock pictures stay behind. That page carries no update date.
- Your page text. Nothing automatic here. You copy it off the live site by hand.
One gap is worth knowing before you start. Wix’s help center has a page titled “Wix Blog Request: Exporting Blog Posts to Other Platforms.” It says “Currently, it is not possible to export blog posts to other platforms.” It is filed as a feature request, with the status “We are collecting votes for this issue.” That page carries no update date. If you have years of blog posts on Wix, plan on copying them out one at a time.
On the GoDaddy side, the help page “Website Migration service” lists Managed Hosting for WordPress and Web Hosting (cPanel), not the drag and drop builder. That page carries no update date. A store product list has an export button. The pages of the site do not.
What does not come with you
The design. The layout, the fonts, the spacing, the way the pages stack up on a phone. None of that is a file you can hand to a new builder and have them load it.
Your forms go too. So does anything you added from the builder’s app market, and any speed the old site had. A new site is a new build. It will be as fast or as slow as whoever builds it makes it.
So when a company offers to “export your Wix site,” ask what they actually mean. Usually they mean a rebuild with your old text pasted in. That is a fair thing to sell. It is just not an export, and it should not be priced like one.
The domain moves, and that is the part to get right
Your domain name is the one piece that genuinely transfers, and both companies write down the steps.
Wix’s page “Transferring Your Wix Domain Away from Wix” says “You cannot transfer a domain within 60 days of purchase,” and that changing your registrant contact information locks the domain from transfer for 60 days as well. It says a transfer “usually takes up to 7 days to complete.”
GoDaddy’s page “Transfer my domain away from GoDaddy” puts the same clock a little differently. It says a domain cannot be transferred within 60 days of a new registration or a transfer, and within 60 days of a contact info change if the registrant chose to apply that 60 day lock. It says “Transfers typically take 5-7 days to complete.” Neither page carries an update date.
Both pages say the domain has to be set to allow transfers first. Wix says it sends a transfer authorization code, sometimes called an EPP code, to the registrant contact email address on the domain. GoDaddy shows the code in your account and says it sends it to that mailbox too. Check that you can actually open that mailbox before you begin. That is where most transfers stall.
Two things follow from those numbers. Do not cancel the old site the day you start the transfer, since you may be a week out. And do not edit the domain contact details right before you move, or you can start a 60 day clock yourself.
Wix’s transfer page also says you need to add the MX records again after the transfer for business email to work. Mail runs on a separate wire from the website, and it gets cut by accident more often than anything else in a move. It is worth reading up on what a move does to your email before you touch the domain.
A rebuild also changes your page addresses, since no two builders name pages the same way. The old addresses have to point at the new ones, and there are rules about how long those redirects stay up.
When you should not do this at all
If your Wix or GoDaddy site loads fast, shows up in search, and the phone rings, leaving costs you money and risk for nothing. A rebuild is a real project with a quiet period afterward. Being annoyed at a monthly bill is not by itself a reason to move, though what that bill should cover each month is worth checking.
Be careful with the evidence above, too. Not one of those help pages carries an update date, and one of them is a feature request that could be built next quarter. Open them yourself in the week you plan to move, rather than trusting a summary of them, including this one.
What to do next
Work in this order, with the old site still live and paid for:
- Export your contacts and any product or item lists to CSV files. Save them somewhere off the builder.
- Download the photos you uploaded, and copy your page text into plain documents. Get the blog posts out by hand.
- Write down every page address on the old site, one line each. You will need that list later for redirects.
- Log in to the registrar, check whose name is on the domain, and confirm the registrant email is a mailbox you can open today.
- Build the new site and look at it on a phone before anything is switched.
- Move the domain, then check that email still arrives. Only then cancel the old plan.
Before you change anything, it also helps to know what the AI assistants already say about your trade in your town. A free scan asks them the question a customer would ask and writes down who gets named, which gives you a picture from before the move to compare against.
When you gather quotes for the rebuild, ask each builder to show a speed score on a site they actually built, not a promise about yours. The website build here scored 100 on Google’s PageSpeed test, on desktop and mobile, when it launched in August 2026. That number is checkable, which is the only kind worth putting in a quote.