{"id":11200,"date":"2024-05-02T08:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T08:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/what-is-an-epp-code-or-authorization-key-for-a-domain\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T08:01:08","slug":"what-is-an-epp-code-or-authorization-key-for-a-domain","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/what-is-an-epp-code-or-authorization-key-for-a-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an EPP Code or Authorization Key for a domain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A protocol called the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP code) is used when transferring a domain name formally between registrars. An EPP code is a secret code needed to start a domain transfer request from the old registrar to the new registrar. It is also known as a transfer authorization key, Auth code, Authinfo code, authorization transfer key, or an EPP authentication code. The EPP code safeguards your rights as the owner of the domain name and keeps it safe from illegal transfers. Only you, as the domain&#8217;s owner, are able to move the domain to a different registrar. The EPP code must be given to the new domain registrar in order for them to start the domain transfer request and obtain the domain in order to transfer the domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to obtain an EPP Code or Domain Transfer Authorization key?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To transfer .com, .net, .org, .co.in, .in, .biz, .mobi, .info, .us, .tv, .cn, .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn, .cn and .tw domains you will need EPP code. If you want to transfer one of these domains then you will have to contact your current domain registrar they will provide you the EPP code of your domain name. Once you get the EPP code forward it to your new domain name registrar, they will get the domain name transferred to them. You will be charged for the domain transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/\">hostvento <\/a>is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/\"> best Hosting service provider in India<\/a>.\u00a0 Register new domain\u00a0or transfer your existing domain to hostvento today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protocol called the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP code) is used when transferring a domain name formally between registrars. An EPP code is a secret code needed to start a domain transfer request from the old registrar to the new registrar. It is also known as a transfer authorization key, Auth code, Authinfo code, authorization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11200","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20196,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11200\/revisions\/20196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}