Transferring registration for a domain to Amazon Route 53 - Amazon Route 53
Transfer requirements for top-level domainsStep 1: Confirm that Amazon Route 53 supports the top-level domainStep 2 (Optional): Transfer your DNS service to Amazon Route 53 or another DNS service providerStep 3: Change settings with the current registrarStep 4: Get the names of your name serversStep 5: Request the transferStep 6: AISPL (India) customers only: Pay the transfer feeStep 7: Click the link in the confirmation and authorization emailsStep 8: Update the domain configuration

Transferring registration for a domain to Amazon Route 53

Important

During the transfer of any country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) to Route 53, except for .cc and .tv, updates to the owner contact are ignored and the owner contact data from the registry is used. You can update the owner contact after the transfer is complete. For more information, see Updating contact information and ownership for a domain.

To transfer the registration for a domain to Amazon Route 53, follow the procedures in this topic.

Important

If you skip a step, your domain might become unavailable on the internet.

Note the following:

Contacting AWS Support

If you encounter issues while transferring a domain, you can contact AWS Support for free. For more information, see Contacting AWS Support about domain registration issues.

Expiration date

For information about how transferring your domain affects the current expiration date, see How transferring a domain to Amazon Route 53 affects the expiration date for your domain registration.

Transfer fee

When you transfer a domain to Route 53, the transfer fee that we apply to your AWS account depends on the top-level domain, such as .com or .org. For more information, see Route 53 Pricing.

You can't use AWS credits to pay the fee, if any, for transferring a domain to Route 53.

Note

Route 53 charges the fee for transferring your domain before we start the transfer process. If a transfer fails for some reason, we immediately credit your account for the cost of the transfer.

Special and premium domain names

TLD registries have assigned special or premium prices to some domain names. You can't transfer a domain to Route 53 if the domain has a special or premium price.

Domain quotas

The default maximum number of domains per AWS account is 20. You can request a higher quota. For more information, see Quotas on domains.

Name servers limit

The maximum number of name servers per domain in Route 53 is 6.

Transfer requirements for top-level domains

Most domain registrars enforce requirements on transferring a domain to another registrar. The primary purpose of these requirements is to prevent the owners of fraudulent domains from repeatedly transferring the domains to different registrars. Requirements vary, but the following requirements are typical:

  • You must have either registered the domain with the current registrar or transferred registration for the domain to the current registrar at least 60 days ago.

  • If the registration for a domain name expired and had to be restored, it must have been restored at least 60 days ago.

  • The domain cannot have any of the following domain name status codes:

    • clientTransferProhibited

    • pendingDelete

    • pendingTransfer

    • redemptionPeriod

    • serverTransferProhibited

  • The registries for some top-level domains don't allow transfers until changes are complete, such as changes to the domain owner.

For a current list of domain name status codes and an explanation of what each code means, go to the website for ICANN, and search for EPP status codes. (Search on the ICANN website; web searches sometimes return an old version of the document.)

Note

ICANN is the organization that establishes policies governing registration and transfer of domain names.

You can also search for your domain name in website for Whois to see status codes and other information for your domain.

Step 1: Confirm that Amazon Route 53 supports the top-level domain

See Domains that you can register with Amazon Route 53. If the top-level domain for the domain that you want to transfer is on the list, you can transfer the domain to Amazon Route 53.

If a TLD is not on the list, you can't currently transfer the domain registration to Route 53. We occasionally add more TLDs to the list, so check back to see if we've added support for your domain.

Step 2 (Optional): Transfer your DNS service to Amazon Route 53 or another DNS service provider

Why transfer DNS first?

Some registrars provide free DNS service that might be disabled as soon as they receive a request from Route 53 to transfer the domain's registration. If you'd like Route 53 to provide DNS service for your domain, see Making Amazon Route 53 the DNS service for an existing domain.

Step 3: Change settings with the current registrar

Using the method provided by your current registrar, do each of the following for each domain that you want to transfer.

Confirm that the email for the registrant contact for your domain is up to date

We'll send email to that email address to request authorization for the transfer. You need to click a link in the email to authorize the transfer. If you don't click the link, we must cancel the transfer.

Unlock the domain so it can be transferred

ICANN, the governing body for domain registrations requires that you unlock your domain before you transfer it.

Confirm that the domain status allows you to transfer the domain

For more information, see Transfer requirements for top-level domains.

Disable DNSSEC for the domain

If you use DNSSEC with a domain and you transfer the domain registration to Route 53, you must disable DNSSEC at the former registrar first. Then, after you transfer the domain registration, take steps to set up DNSSEC for the domain in Route 53. Route 53 supports DNSSEC for domain registration and for DNSSEC signing. For more information, see Configuring DNSSEC signing in Amazon Route 53.

Important

If you transfer a domain registration to Route 53 while DNSSEC is configured, the DNSSEC public keys are transferred, too. If you transfer DNS service to a provider that doesn't support DNSSEC, DNS resolution fails intermittently until you delete the DNSSEC keys from the domain. For more information, see Deleting public keys for a domain.

Get an authorization code

An authorization code from the current registrar authorizes us to request that registration for the domain be transferred to Route 53. You'll enter this code in the Route 53 console later in the process.

Some top-level domains have additional requirements:

.co.za domains

You don't need to get an authorization code to transfer a .co.za domain to Route 53.

.es domains

If you're transferring a .es domain to Route 53, you don't need to get an authorization code.

.uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, and .org.uk domains

If you're transferring a .uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, or .org.uk domain to Route 53, you don't need to get an authorization code. Instead, use the method provided by your current domain registrar to update the value of the IPS tag for the domain to GANDI, all uppercase. (An IPS tag is required by Nominet, the registry for .uk domain names.) If your registrar doesn't provide a way to change the value of the IPS tag, contact Nominet.

Note the following about changing the IPS tag:

You must request the transfer within five days

If you don't request the transfer within five days after you change the IPS tag, the tag changes back to the previous value. You must change the value of the IPS tag again, or the transfer request will fail.

Viewing the IPS tag in WHOIS queries

The change to the IPS tag doesn't appear in WHOIS queries until after the transfer to Route 53 has completed.

Email from Gandi

You might receive an email from our registrar associate, Gandi, about the transfer process. If you receive an email from Gandi (transfer-auth@gandi.net) about transferring your domain, ignore the instructions in the email because they aren't relevant to Route 53. Follow the instructions in this topic instead.

Renew your domain registration before you transfer the domain (selected geographic TLDs)

For most TLDs, when you transfer a domain, the registration is automatically extended by one year. However, for some geographic TLDs, registration is not extended when you transfer the domain. If you're transferring a domain to Route 53 that has one of these TLDs, we recommend that you renew the domain registration before you transfer the domain, especially if the expiration date is approaching.

Important

If you don't renew the domain before you transfer it, the registration could expire before the transfer is complete. If this happens, the domain becomes unavailable on the internet, and the domain name could become available for others to purchase.

Registration is not automatically extended when you transfer the following domains to another registrar:

  • .ch (Switzerland)

  • .cl (Chile)

  • .co.uk (United Kingdom)

  • .co.za (South Africa)

  • .com.au (Australia)

  • .cz (Czech Republic)

  • .es (Spain)

  • .fi (Finland)

  • .im (Isle of Man)

  • .jp (Japan)

  • .me.uk (United Kingdom)

  • .net.au (Australia)

  • .org.uk (United Kingdom)

  • .se (Sweden)

  • .uk (United Kingdom)

Step 4: Get the names of your name servers

If you're using Amazon Route 53 as your DNS service or you're continuing to use the existing DNS service, we'll get the names of the name servers for you automatically later in the process. Skip to Step 5: Request the transfer.

If you want to change the DNS service to a provider other than Route 53 at the same time that you're transferring the domain to Route 53, use the procedure provided by the DNS service provider to get the names of the name servers for each domain that you want to transfer.

Important

If the registrar for your domain is also the DNS service provider for the domain, transfer your DNS service to Route 53 or another DNS service provider before you continue with the process to transfer the domain registration.

If you transfer DNS service at the same time that you transfer domain registration, your website, email, and the web applications associated with the domain might become unavailable. For more information, see Step 2 (Optional): Transfer your DNS service to Amazon Route 53 or another DNS service provider.

Step 5: Request the transfer

To transfer domain registration from the current registrar to Amazon Route 53, use the Route 53 console to request the transfer. Route 53 handles the communication with the current registrar for the domain.

You can use the console to transfer up to five domains.

Note

We're updating the domains console for Route 53. During the transition period, you can continue to use the old console.

Choose the tab for the console you are using.

New console

The procedure that you use depends on whether you want to transfer a single domain or up to five domains:

Use the Transfer domain to your account process to transfer a single domain to your account.

To transfer domain registration of a single domain to Route 53

  1. Open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Registered domains.

  3. On the Registered Domains page, choose Single domain from the Transfer in dropdown.

  4. On the Transfer domain to your account page, in the Check domain transferability section, enter the name of the domain for which you want to transfer registration to Route 53, and choose Check.

  5. If the domain registration is available for transfer, verify that you have completed the transfer requirements for top-level domains, and choose Next.

    If the domain registration is not available for transfer, the Route 53 console lists the reasons. Contact your registrar for information about how to resolve the issues that prevent you from transferring the registration.

  6. On the DNS service page, review the information about name servers, and choose Next.

  7. If prompted, enter the authorization code or IPS tag that you got from your current registrar in Step 3: Change settings with the current registrar.

    Note

    You don't need to enter an authorization code to transfer a .co.za, .es, .uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, or .org.uk domain to Route 53.

    Choose Next.

  8. On the Domain pricing options page, choose the number of years that you want to register the domain you are transferring for and whether you want us to automatically renew your domain registration before the expiration date.

    Note

    Domain name registrations and renewals are not refundable. If you enable automatic domain renewal and you decide that you don't want the domain name after we renew the registration, you can't get a refund for the cost of the renewal.

    Choose Next.

  9. On the Contact information page, enter contact information for the domain registrant, admin, technical, and billing contacts. The values that you enter here are applied to all of the domains that you're registering. For more information, see Values that you specify when you register or transfer a domain.

    Note the following considerations:

    First Name and Last Name

    For First Name and Last Name, we recommend that you specify the name on your official ID. For some changes to domain settings, some domain registries require that you provide proof of identity. The name on your ID must match the name of the registrant contact for the domain.

    Different contacts

    By default, we use the same information for all three contacts. If you want to enter different information for one or more contacts, change the value of Same as registrant contact toggle switch to off position.

    Note

    For .it domains, the registrant and admin contacts must be the same.

    Additional required information

    For some top-level domains (TLDs), we're required to collect additional information. For these TLDs, enter the applicable values after the Postal/Zip Code field.

    Privacy protection

    Choose whether you want to hide your contact information from WHOIS queries.

    Note

    You must specify the same privacy setting for the admin, registrant, and technical contacts.

    For more information, see the following topics:

    Note

    To enable privacy protection for .uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, and .org.uk domains, you must open a support case and request privacy protection.

    Choose Next.

  10. On the Review page, review the information that you entered, and optionally correct it. Read the terms of service, and select the check box to confirm that you've read the terms of service.

    Choose Submit request.

  11. AISPL (India) customers only: If your contact address is in India, your user agreement is with Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL), a local AWS seller in India. To register a domain with Route 53, perform the following steps to pay the fee for registering your domain.

    1. Go to the Orders and Invoices page in the AWS Management Console.

    2. In the Payments Due section, find the applicable invoice.

    3. In the Actions column, choose Verify and Pay.

      After you pay the invoice, we complete the domain registration and send the applicable emails.

    Important

    If you don't pay the invoice within five days, the invoice is canceled. To register a domain after an invoice is canceled, resubmit the request.

    For more information, see Managing your payments in India in the AWS Billing User Guide.

  12. In the navigation pane, choose Domains and then Requests.

    On this page, you can view the status of domain and also if you need to respond to registrant contact verification email. You can also choose to resend the verification email.

    If you specified an email address for the registrant contact that has never been used to register a domain with Route 53, some TLD registries require you to verify that the address is valid.

    We send a verification email from one of the following email addresses:

    • noreply@registrar.amazon.com – for TLDs registered by Amazon Registrar.

    • noreply@domainnameverification.net – for TLDs registered by our registrar associate, Gandi. To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see Finding your registrar.

    Important

    The registrant contact must follow the instructions in the email to verify that the email was received, or we must suspend the domain as required by ICANN. When a domain is suspended, it's not accessible on the internet.

    1. When you receive the verification email, choose the link in the email that verifies that the email address is valid. If you don't receive the email immediately, check your junk email folder.

    2. Return to the Requests page. If the status doesn't automatically update to say email-address is verified, choose Refresh status.

  13. When domain transfer is complete, your next step depends on whether you want to use Route 53 or another DNS service as the DNS service for the domain:

    • Route 53 – In the hosted zone that Route 53 created when you registered the domain, create records to tell Route 53 how you want to route traffic for the domain and subdomains.

      For example, when someone enters your domain name in a browser and that query is forwarded to Route 53, do you want Route 53 to respond to the query with the IP address of a web server in your data center or with the name of an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer?

      For more information, see Working with records.

      Important

      If you create records in a hosted zone other than the one that Route 53 creates automatically, you must update the name servers for the domain to use the name servers for the new hosted zone.

    • Another DNS service – Configure your new domain to route DNS queries to the other DNS service. Perform the procedure Updating name servers to use another registrar.

Use the following procedure to transfer up to five domains to your account.

To transfer domain registration to Route 53 for up to five domains

  1. Open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Registered domains.

  3. On the Registered domains page, choose Multiple domains from the Transfer in dropdown.

  4. On the Transfer multiple domains to your account page, enter up to five domains you want to transfer, and their authorization code, if required, per line, and choose Check.

  5. If the domain registration is available for transfer, it is listed in the Domain availability list as available. Select the check-box next to each domain for which you want to transfer the registration, verify that you have completed the transfer requirements for top-level domains, and choose Next.

    If the domain registration is not available for transfer, the Route 53 console lists the reasons. Contact your registrar for information about how to resolve the issues that prevent you from transferring the registration.

  6. On the DNS service page, review the information about name servers, and choose Next.

  7. On the Domain pricing options page, choose the number of years that you want to register the domain you are transferring for and whether you want us to automatically renew your domain registration before the expiration date.

    Note

    Domain name registrations and renewals are nonrefundable. If you enable automatic domain renewal and you decide that you don't want the domain name after we renew the registration, you can't get a refund for the cost of the renewal.

    Choose Next.

  8. On the Contact information page, enter contact information for the domain registrant, admin, and tech contacts. The values that you enter here are applied to all the domains that you're transferring.

    Important

    We recommend that you specify the following values for the registrant contact (the domain owner):

    • First and last name: We recommend that you specify the name that appears on your official ID. For some changes to domain settings, some domain registries require that you provide proof of identity. The name on your ID must match the name of the registrant contact for the domain.

    • Contact details: During the domain transfer, we recommend that you specify the same values as are specified with the current registrar. When you change contact details for the registrant contact, you change the domain owner, and some TLD registries don't allow you to change the domain owner during a domain transfer. If you change contact details for the registrant contact, the transfer might fail. You can change contact details for the registrant contact after you transfer the domain.

    By default, we use the same information for all three contacts. If you want to enter different information for one or more contacts, set the value of Same as the registrant contact to off position.

    Note

    For .it domains, the registrant and admin contacts must be the same.

    For more information, see Values that you specify when you register or transfer a domain.

  9. For some TLDs, we're required to collect additional information. For these TLDs, enter the applicable values after the Postal/Zip Code field.

  10. If the value of Contact Type is Person, choose whether you want to hide your contact information from WHOIS queries. For more information, see Enabling or disabling privacy protection for contact information for a domain.

  11. Choose Submit.

  12. Review the information you entered, read the terms of service, and select the check box to confirm that you've read the terms of service.

  13. Choose Submit request.

    We confirm that the domains are eligible for transfer, and we send an email to the registrant contacts for the domain to request authorization to transfer the domain.

  14. AISPL (India) customers only: If your contact address is in India, your user agreement is with Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL), a local AWS seller in India. To register a domain with Route 53, perform the following steps to pay the fee for registering your domain.

    1. Go to the Orders and Invoices page in the AWS Management Console.

    2. In the Payments Due section, find the applicable invoice.

    3. In the Actions column, choose Verify and Pay.

      After you pay the invoice, we complete the domain registration and send the applicable emails.

    Important

    If you don't pay the invoice within five days, the invoice is canceled. To register a domain after an invoice is canceled, resubmit the request.

    For more information, see Managing your payments in India in the AWS Billing User Guide.

  15. In the navigation pane, choose Domains and then Requests.

    On this page you can view the status of domain and also if you need to respond to registrant contact verification email. You can also choose to resend the verification email.

    If you specified an email address for the registrant contact that has never been used to register a domain with Route 53, some TLD registries require you to verify that the address is valid.

    We send a verification email from one of the following email addresses:

    • noreply@registrar.amazon.com – for TLDs registered by Amazon Registrar.

    • noreply@domainnameverification.net – for TLDs registered by our registrar associate, Gandi. To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see Finding your registrar.

    Important

    The registrant contact must follow the instructions in the email to verify that the email was received, or we must suspend the domain as required by ICANN. When a domain is suspended, it's not accessible on the internet.

    1. When you receive the verification email, choose the link in the email that verifies that the email address is valid. If you don't receive the email immediately, check your junk email folder.

    2. Return to the Requests page. If the status doesn't automatically update to say email-address is verified, choose Refresh status.

  16. When domain transfer is complete, your next step depends on whether you want to use Route 53 or another DNS service as the DNS service for the domain:

    • Route 53 – In the hosted zone that Route 53 created when you registered the domain, create records to tell Route 53 how you want to route traffic for the domain and subdomains.

      For example, when someone enters your domain name in a browser and that query is forwarded to Route 53, do you want Route 53 to respond to the query with the IP address of a web server in your data center or with the name of an ELB load balancer?

      For more information, see Working with records.

      Important

      If you create records in a hosted zone other than the one that Route 53 creates automatically, you must update the name servers for the domain to use the name servers for the new hosted zone.

    • Another DNS service – Configure your new domain to route DNS queries to the other DNS service. Perform the procedure Updating name servers to use another registrar.

Old console

The procedure that you use depends on whether you want to transfer up to five domains or more than five domains:

Important

If you use the procedure to transfer more than five domains, Route 53 automatically configures the transferred domains to use the current DNS service for all the domains that you're transferring. If the registrar for your domain is also the DNS service provider for the domain and you don't transfer DNS service to another provider, your website, email, and the web applications associated with the domain might become unavailable. For more information, see Step 2 (Optional): Transfer your DNS service to Amazon Route 53 or another DNS service provider.

To transfer domain registration of up to five domains to Route 53

  1. Open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Registered Domains.

  3. Choose Transfer Domain.

  4. Enter the name of the domain for which you want to transfer registration to Route 53, and choose Check.

  5. If the domain registration is available for transfer, choose Add to cart.

    If the domain registration is not available for transfer, the Route 53 console lists the reasons. Contact your registrar for information about how to resolve the issues that prevent you from transferring the registration.

  6. If you want to transfer other domain registrations, repeat steps 4 and 5.

  7. When you've added all the domain registrations that you want to transfer, choose Continue.

  8. For each domain name that you want to transfer, enter the applicable values:

    Authorization code

    Enter the authorization code that you got from your current registrar in Step 3: Change settings with the current registrar.

    Note

    You don't need to enter an authorization code to transfer a .co.za, .es, .uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, or .org.uk domain to Route 53.

    Name server options

    Choose the applicable option:

    • Continue to use the name servers provided by the current registrar or DNS service – If the current registrar for the domain is currently providing DNS service, we recommend that you transfer DNS service to another DNS service provider before you transfer the domain.

      Important

      Some registrars stop providing DNS service as soon as you request a transfer to another registrar. If the current registrar disables DNS service, your domain will become unavailable on the internet.

    • Import name servers from a Route 53 hosted zone that has the same name as the domain – When you select this option, the console displays a list of the hosted zones that have the same name as the domain. Choose the hosted zone that you want to use for routing traffic for the domain.

    • Specify new name servers to replace the current registrar's name servers (not recommended) – If you're using a DNS service other than Route 53 for this domain, enter the names of the name servers that you got in Step 4: Get the names of your name servers.

      Important

      We don't recommend choosing this option because transferring DNS service from one DNS service provider to another can take up to two days. The current registrar might stop providing DNS service as soon as you request a transfer to another registrar. If the current registrar disables DNS service, your domain will become unavailable on the internet until the change to another DNS service provider takes effect.

    Name servers

    If you chose the option Specify new name servers to replace the current registrar's name servers, enter the names of the name servers that you got from the DNS service for the domain in Step 4: Get the names of your name servers. By default, the Name server fields display the names of the current name servers for the domain.

    Glue records

    If the name of a name server is a subdomain of the domain that you're transferring (such as ns1.example.com in the domain example.com), enter one or more IP addresses for each name server. You can enter addresses in IPv4 or IPv6 format. If a name server has multiple IP addresses, enter each address on a separate line.

  9. On the Contact Details for Your n Domains page, enter contact information for the domain registrant, administrator, and technical contact. The values that you enter here are applied to all the domains that you're transferring.

    Important

    We recommend that you specify the following values for the registrant contact (the domain owner):

    • First and last name: We recommend that you specify the name that appears on your official ID. For some changes to domain settings, some domain registries require that you provide proof of identity. The name on your ID must match the name of the registrant contact for the domain.

    • Contact details: During the domain transfer, we recommend that you specify the same values as are specified with the current registrar. When you change contact details for the registrant contact, you change the domain owner, and some TLD registries don't allow you to change the domain owner during a domain transfer. If you change contact details for the registrant contact, the transfer might fail. You can change contact details for the registrant contact after you transfer the domain.

    By default, we use the same information for all three contacts. If you want to enter different information for one or more contacts, change the value of My Registrant, Administrative, and Technical contacts are all the same to No.

    Note

    For .it domains, the registrant and administrative contacts must be the same.

    For more information, see Values that you specify when you register or transfer a domain.

  10. For some TLDs, we're required to collect additional information. For these TLDs, enter the applicable values after the Postal/Zip Code field.

  11. If the value of Contact Type is Person, choose whether you want to hide your contact information from WHOIS queries. For more information, see Enabling or disabling privacy protection for contact information for a domain.

  12. Choose Continue.

  13. Choose whether you want us to automatically renew your domain registration before the expiration date.

    Note

    Domain name registrations and renewals are nonrefundable. If you enable automatic domain renewal and you decide that you don't want the domain name after we renew the registration, you can't get a refund for the cost of the renewal.

  14. Review the information you entered, read the terms of service, and select the check box to confirm that you've read the terms of service.

  15. Choose Complete Purchase.

    We confirm that the domain is eligible for transfer, and we send an email to the registrant contact for the domain to request authorization to transfer the domain.

To transfer domain registration to Route 53 for more than five domains

  1. Open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Registered Domains.

  3. Choose Transfer Domain.

  4. On the Transfer domain to Route 53 page, choose Transfer multiple domains to Route 53.

  5. For each domain that you want to transfer, enter the domain name and the authorization code in the following format. Note the comma between the domain name and the authorization code:

    domain-name-1,authorization-code-1
domain-name-2,authorization-code-2

    If an authorization code isn't required for a domain, omit the comma, too:

    domain-name-3
    Note

    You don't need to enter an authorization code to transfer a .co.za, .es, .uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, or .org.ukdomain to Route 53.

  6. When you've entered all the domains that you want to transfer, choose Continue.

  7. The Check domain transferability page lists the domains that you entered on the previous page and whether each domain can be transferred. You have the following options:

    If all domains are transferable

    Choose Add transferable domains to cart.

    If one or more domains are untransferable and you want to transfer them

    Review Transfer requirements for top-level domains to confirm that each untransferable domain meets the transfer requirements. If you don't find any obvious problems, contact the current registrar to determine why the domain can't be transferred to Route 53.

    After you make any changes so that domains are transferable (for example, disabling the transfer lock), choose Check transferability, and Route 53 will repeat the transferability check.

    If one or more domains are untransferable and you don't want to transfer them

    Choose Add transferable domains to cart.

  8. Choose Continue.

  9. On the Contact Details for Your n Domains page, enter contact information for the domain registrant, administrator, and technical contact. The values that you enter here are applied to all the domains that you're transferring.

    Important

    We recommend that you specify the following values for the registrant contact (the domain owner):

    • First and last name: We recommend that you specify the name that appears on your official ID. For some changes to domain settings, some domain registries require that you provide proof of identity. The name on your ID must match the name of the registrant contact for the domain.

    • Contact details: During the domain transfer, we recommend that you specify the same values as are specified with the current registrar. When you change contact details for the registrant contact, you change the domain owner, and some TLD registries don't allow you to change the domain owner during a domain transfer. If you change contact details for the registrant contact, the transfer might fail. You can change contact details for the registrant contact after you transfer the domain.

    By default, we use the same information for all three contacts. If you want to enter different information for one or more contacts, change the value of My Registrant, Administrative, and Technical contacts are all the same to No.

    For more information, see Values that you specify when you register or transfer a domain.

  10. For some TLDs, we're required to collect additional information. For these TLDs, enter the applicable values after the Postal/Zip Code field.

  11. If the value of Contact Type is Person, choose whether you want to hide your contact information from WHOIS queries. For more information, see Enabling or disabling privacy protection for contact information for a domain.

  12. Choose Continue.

  13. Choose whether you want us to automatically renew your domain registration before the expiration date.

    Note

    Domain name registrations and renewals are not refundable. If you enable automatic domain renewal and you decide that you don't want the domain name after we renew the registration, you can't get a refund for the cost of the renewal.

  14. Review the information you entered, read the terms of service, and select the check box to confirm that you've read the terms of service.

  15. Choose Complete Purchase.

    We confirm that the domain is eligible for transfer, and we send an email to the registrant contact for the domain to request authorization to transfer the domain.

Step 6: AISPL (India) customers only: Pay the transfer fee

If your contact address is in India, your user agreement is with Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL), a local AWS seller in India. To transfer a domain to Route 53, perform the following procedure to pay the fee for transferring your domain.

To pay the transfer fee

  1. Go to the Orders and Invoices page in the AWS Management Console.

  2. In the Payments Due section, find the applicable invoice.

  3. In the Actions column, choose Verify and Pay.

    After you pay the invoice, we complete the domain transfer and send the applicable emails.

Important

If you don't pay the invoice within five days, the invoice is canceled. To transfer a domain after an invoice is canceled, resubmit the request.

For more information, see Managing your payments in India in the AWS Billing User Guide.

Step 7: Click the link in the confirmation and authorization emails

Soon after you request the transfer, we might send one or more emails to the registrant contact for the domain:

Email to confirm that the registrant contact is reachable

If you've never registered a domain with Route 53 or transferred a domain to Route 53, we send you an email that asks you to confirm that the email address is valid. We retain this information so we don't have to send this confirmation email again.

Email to get authorization to transfer the domain

For some TLDs, you need to respond to an email to authorize transfer of the domain.

Generic TLDs such as .com, .net, and .org

Authorization isn't required for domains that have a generic TLD, such as .com, .net, or .org.

Geographic TLDs such as .co.uk and .jp

For domains that have a geographic TLD, we're required to get your authorization to transfer the domain. If you transfer 10 domains, we have to send you 10 emails, and you have to click the authorization link in each one.

The emails all go to the registrant contact for the domain:

  • If you're the registrant contact for the domain, follow the instructions in the email to authorize the transfer.

  • If someone else is the registrant contact, ask that person to follow the instructions in the email to authorize the transfer.

Important

If you're transferring a domain that has a geographic TLD, we wait up to five days for the registrant contact to authorize the transfer. If the registrant contact doesn't respond within five days, we cancel the transfer operation and send an email to the registrant contact about the cancellation.

Authorization email for a new owner or email address

If you changed the following values, we send you a separate email that asks for your authorization:

Domain owner

If you change the owner of the domain, as described in Who is the owner of a domain?, we send email to the registrant contact for the domain.

Email address for the registrant contact (only for some TLDs)

For some TLDs, if you change the email address for the registrant contact, we send an email to the old and the new email address for the registrant contact. Someone at both email addresses must follow the instructions in the email to authorize the change.

For changes to the domain owner or the email address for the registrant contact, if we don't receive authorization for the change within 3-15 days, depending on the top-level domain, we must cancel the request as required by ICANN.

Email addresses that authorization emails come from

All email comes from one of the following email addresses.

TLDs Email address that authorization email comes from

.com.au and .net.au

no-reply@ispapi.net

The email contains a link to http://transfers.ispapi.net.

.fr

nic@nic.fr, if you're changing the registrant contact for a .fr domain name at the same time that you're transferring the domain. (The email is sent both to the current registrant contact and the new registrant contact.)

All others

One of the following email addresses:

  • noreply@registrar.amazon.com

  • noreply@domainnameverification.net

To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see Domains that you can register with Amazon Route 53.

Approval from the current registrar

If the registrant contact authorizes the transfer, we start to work with your current registrar to transfer your domain. This step might take up to ten days, depending on the TLD for your domain:

If your current registrar doesn't reply to our transfer request, which is common among registrars, the transfer happens automatically. If your current registrar rejects the transfer request, we send an email notification to the current registrant contact. The registrant needs to contact the current registrar and resolve the issues with the transfer.

What happens next

When your domain transfer has been approved, we send another email to the registrant contact. For more information about the process, see Viewing the status of a domain transfer.

We charge your AWS account for the domain transfer as soon as the transfer is complete. For a list of charges by TLD, see Amazon Route 53 Pricing for Domain Registration.

Note

This is a one-time charge, so the charge doesn't appear in your CloudWatch billing metrics. For more information about CloudWatch metrics, see Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Step 8: Update the domain configuration

After the transfer is complete, you can optionally change the following settings:

Transfer lock

To transfer the domain to Route 53, you had to disable the transfer lock. If you want to re-enable the lock to prevent unauthorized transfers, see Locking a domain to prevent unauthorized transfer to another registrar.

Automatic renewal

We configure the transferred domain to automatically renew as the expiration date approaches. For information about how to change this setting, see Enabling or disabling automatic renewal for a domain.

Extended registration period

By default, Route 53 renews the domain annually. If you want to register the domain for a longer period, see Extending the registration period for a domain.

DNSSEC

For information about configuring DNSSEC for the domain, see Configuring DNSSEC for a domain.