Last verified: October 2026. GoDaddy's own pages blocked our checks; see the short answer. General information, not legal advice.
Is GoDaddy HIPAA compliant? We tried to answer this from GoDaddy's own help center and legal agreements, and couldn't: GoDaddy blocked every automated check we ran. So this page does the next most useful thing. It separates the GoDaddy products a practice might use, lists the exact questions to get answered in writing, and explains how to keep your GoDaddy domain while moving the website somewhere you can verify.
Short answer: is GoDaddy HIPAA compliant?
Short answer (verified October 2026): Not verified. On October 23, 2026, GoDaddy's help center, Universal Terms of Service and hosting agreement all returned "access denied" (HTTP 403) to our checks, so we can't confirm whether GoDaddy signs a business associate agreement (BAA) for its website builder, hosting or email. Until GoDaddy confirms in writing that a BAA covers the specific product and plan you use, don't send protected health information (PHI) through it.
Practices do ask: "is godaddy hipaa compliant" gets about 40 searches a month and "godaddy hipaa" 10 (Google Ads Keyword Planner data via DataForSEO, US, 12-month average to Sep 2026). Most are owners who registered a domain at GoDaddy years ago and want to know whether everything attached to it is safe.
GoDaddy Website Builder vs GoDaddy hosting
"GoDaddy" can mean three different things on a practice's account. Work out which you have, because each needs its own answer.
| What you have | Who holds patient information | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| A site built in GoDaddy's own website builder | GoDaddy, for any form submissions | Whether GoDaddy will sign a BAA for that builder and plan |
| A site you or a developer built (often WordPress) on GoDaddy hosting | GoDaddy, if entries or backups sit on its servers | A hosting BAA, plus every plugin; see is WordPress HIPAA compliant |
| Only the domain at GoDaddy, site hosted elsewhere | Not GoDaddy, for the website | Your actual host and form tools |
The third case is common and simple: a domain registration alone doesn't hold patient data. Email may still run through GoDaddy, which is the next question.
What GoDaddy's official terms say about health data
We can't tell you. GoDaddy's legal agreements and help pages returned "access denied" when we tried to read them on October 23, 2026. We won't paraphrase them from memory, because terms and plans change.
What HIPAA itself says is clear. A business associate is anyone who "creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information" for a covered entity (45 CFR 160.103 (opens in a new tab)). If GoDaddy stores your form submissions or carries your patient email, it's in that position, and you need its BAA.
Ask GoDaddy these questions, and keep the written answers:
- Will you sign a BAA for our account? Which products and plans does it name?
- Does it cover the website builder's form submissions, hosting backups and email?
- Where are form submissions and backups stored, and for how long?
- If you resell another company's service (such as Microsoft 365), whose BAA covers it?
If any answer is "no" or unclear, keep PHI off that product.
This is general information, not legal advice. Confirm how it applies to your practice with a qualified advisor.
Email, forms and Microsoft 365 through GoDaddy
Forms. A website-builder contact form usually emails each submission to you. That puts patient messages in two places: the builder's storage and your mailbox. See HIPAA compliant forms for the full path a submission travels.
Email. Microsoft says its HIPAA BAA "is available through the Microsoft Online Services Data Protection Addendum by default to all customers who are covered entities or business associates," and lists Exchange Online among covered services (Microsoft Learn (opens in a new tab)). Microsoft's page doesn't address mailboxes bought through a reseller. If your Microsoft 365 came from GoDaddy, ask GoDaddy and Microsoft in writing which agreement covers it.
Microsoft also says a BAA doesn't make you compliant by itself; your setup and processes still matter. For email options and settings, see HIPAA compliant email.
Safer setups for a practice on GoDaddy
Until you have written BAA answers, these setups keep patient information off unverified products:
- Brochure-only site. Remove contact forms that ask "how can we help?" and publish a phone number plus a link to a scheduler that signs a BAA.
- Embedded form. Replace the builder's form with one from a form service that signs a BAA, and set notifications to "new request" alerts with no answers.
- Separate patient email. Route patient messages to a mailbox covered by a BAA you've confirmed, not a general info@ address of unknown status.
- Move the website, keep the domain. The cleanest option if you need forms on the site itself. See the next section.
Keeping your GoDaddy domain while you move your site
A domain registration and website hosting are separate services. You can keep the domain registered at GoDaddy and point only the website somewhere else.
- Export your DNS records before changing anything, so you can restore them.
- Change only the website records: usually the A record for the root domain and the CNAME for "www", using the values your new host gives you.
- Leave email records alone. MX records route your mail; SPF and DKIM records (TXT or CNAME) prove your mail is genuine. Delete or change them and practice email can bounce or land in spam.
- Lower TTLs a day ahead so the switch spreads faster, then raise them again afterward.
- Map old URLs to new ones with redirects so search rankings carry over. The website migration checklist has the full order of operations.
Medfy hosts your site on your own domain. The domain stays your practice's, wherever it's registered.
Alternative to piecing it together: Medfy is not a do-it-yourself builder. It rebuilds your practice's website and hosts it on your own domain, with HIPAA-compliant forms. Patient information is stored in separate, encrypted HIPAA databases in the US or Canada, and Medfy signs a BAA with your practice. You see a free preview of the rebuilt site first: start with a free audit and site preview, read how Medfy handles patient data, or compare other platforms in the HIPAA checks for website builders.
Frequently asked questions
Does GoDaddy sign a BAA?
We couldn't confirm either way. GoDaddy's help and legal pages blocked our automated checks in October 2026, so we can't quote its current position. Ask GoDaddy in writing whether it will sign a BAA for each product you use, such as the website builder, hosting and email, and treat the answer as no until you hold a signed agreement naming those products.
Is GoDaddy email HIPAA compliant?
It depends on which mailbox you have and whose agreement covers it, and GoDaddy's pages blocked our checks. Microsoft says its BAA comes through its Online Services Data Protection Addendum and covers Exchange Online, but whether that reaches Microsoft 365 bought through GoDaddy is a question to put to GoDaddy and Microsoft in writing. Until then, keep patient details out of that email.
Can I keep my GoDaddy domain if I move my website?
Yes. Registering a domain and hosting a website are separate services. You can leave the domain registered at GoDaddy and change only the DNS records that point the website to its new host. Leave the email records (MX, SPF and DKIM) as they are, or practice email can stop working. Lowering record TTLs a day ahead makes the switch faster.