Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

TransferDomain

Transfers a domain from another registrar to Amazon Route 53.

For more information about transferring domains, see the following topics:

For transfer requirements, a detailed procedure, and information about viewing the status of a domain that you're transferring to Route 53, see Transferring Registration for a Domain to Amazon Route 53 in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.
For information about how to transfer a domain from one AWS account to another, see TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount.
For information about how to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, see Transferring a Domain from Amazon Route 53 to Another Registrar in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

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 UpdateDomainContact.

If the registrar for your domain is also the DNS service provider for the domain, we highly recommend that you transfer your DNS service to Route 53 or to another DNS service provider before you transfer your registration. Some registrars provide free DNS service when you purchase a domain registration. When you transfer the registration, the previous registrar will not renew your domain registration and could end your DNS service at any time.

Important

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.

If the transfer is successful, this method returns an operation ID that you can use to track the progress and completion of the action. If the transfer doesn't complete successfully, the domain registrant will be notified by email.

Request Syntax


{
   "AdminContact": { 
      "AddressLine1": "string",
      "AddressLine2": "string",
      "City": "string",
      "ContactType": "string",
      "CountryCode": "string",
      "Email": "string",
      "ExtraParams": [ 
         { 
            "Name": "string",
            "Value": "string"
         }
      ],
      "Fax": "string",
      "FirstName": "string",
      "LastName": "string",
      "OrganizationName": "string",
      "PhoneNumber": "string",
      "State": "string",
      "ZipCode": "string"
   },
   "AuthCode": "string",
   "AutoRenew": boolean,
   "BillingContact": { 
      "AddressLine1": "string",
      "AddressLine2": "string",
      "City": "string",
      "ContactType": "string",
      "CountryCode": "string",
      "Email": "string",
      "ExtraParams": [ 
         { 
            "Name": "string",
            "Value": "string"
         }
      ],
      "Fax": "string",
      "FirstName": "string",
      "LastName": "string",
      "OrganizationName": "string",
      "PhoneNumber": "string",
      "State": "string",
      "ZipCode": "string"
   },
   "DomainName": "string",
   "DurationInYears": number,
   "IdnLangCode": "string",
   "Nameservers": [ 
      { 
         "GlueIps": [ "string" ],
         "Name": "string"
      }
   ],
   "PrivacyProtectAdminContact": boolean,
   "PrivacyProtectBillingContact": boolean,
   "PrivacyProtectRegistrantContact": boolean,
   "PrivacyProtectTechContact": boolean,
   "RegistrantContact": { 
      "AddressLine1": "string",
      "AddressLine2": "string",
      "City": "string",
      "ContactType": "string",
      "CountryCode": "string",
      "Email": "string",
      "ExtraParams": [ 
         { 
            "Name": "string",
            "Value": "string"
         }
      ],
      "Fax": "string",
      "FirstName": "string",
      "LastName": "string",
      "OrganizationName": "string",
      "PhoneNumber": "string",
      "State": "string",
      "ZipCode": "string"
   },
   "TechContact": { 
      "AddressLine1": "string",
      "AddressLine2": "string",
      "City": "string",
      "ContactType": "string",
      "CountryCode": "string",
      "Email": "string",
      "ExtraParams": [ 
         { 
            "Name": "string",
            "Value": "string"
         }
      ],
      "Fax": "string",
      "FirstName": "string",
      "LastName": "string",
      "OrganizationName": "string",
      "PhoneNumber": "string",
      "State": "string",
      "ZipCode": "string"
   }
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AdminContact

Provides detailed contact information.

Type: ContactDetail object

Required: Yes

AuthCode

The authorization code for the domain. You get this value from the current registrar.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

AutoRenew

Indicates whether the domain will be automatically renewed (true) or not (false). Auto renewal only takes effect after the account is charged.

Default: true

Type: Boolean

Required: No

BillingContact

Provides detailed contact information.

Type: ContactDetail object

Required: No

DomainName

The name of the domain that you want to transfer to Route 53. The top-level domain (TLD), such as .com, must be a TLD that Route 53 supports. For a list of supported TLDs, see Domains that You Can Register with Amazon Route 53 in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

The domain name can contain only the following characters:

Letters a through z. Domain names are not case sensitive.
Numbers 0 through 9.
Hyphen (-). You can't specify a hyphen at the beginning or end of a label.
Period (.) to separate the labels in the name, such as the . in example.com.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 255.

Required: Yes

DurationInYears

The number of years that you want to register the domain for. Domains are registered for a minimum of one year. The maximum period depends on the top-level domain.

Default: 1

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Required: Yes

IdnLangCode

Reserved for future use.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 3.

Required: No

Nameservers

Contains details for the host and glue IP addresses.

Type: Array of Nameserver objects

Required: No

PrivacyProtectAdminContact

Whether you want to conceal contact information from WHOIS queries. If you specify true, WHOIS ("who is") queries return contact information for the registrar, the phrase "REDACTED FOR PRIVACY", or "On behalf of <domain name> owner.".

Note

While some domains may allow different privacy settings per contact, we recommend specifying the same privacy setting for all contacts.

Default: true

Type: Boolean

Required: No

PrivacyProtectBillingContact

Whether you want to conceal contact information from WHOIS queries. If you specify true, WHOIS ("who is") queries return contact information either for Amazon Registrar or for our registrar associate, Gandi. If you specify false, WHOIS queries return the information that you entered for the billing contact.

Note

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

Type: Boolean

Required: No

PrivacyProtectRegistrantContact

Note

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

Default: true

Type: Boolean

Required: No

PrivacyProtectTechContact

Note

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

Default: true

Type: Boolean

Required: No

RegistrantContact

Provides detailed contact information.

Type: ContactDetail object

Required: Yes

TechContact

Provides detailed contact information.

Type: ContactDetail object

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "OperationId": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

OperationId

Identifier for tracking the progress of the request. To query the operation status, use GetOperationDetail.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 255.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DomainLimitExceeded

The number of domains has exceeded the allowed threshold for the account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DuplicateRequest

The request is already in progress for the domain.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidInput

The requested item is not acceptable. For example, for APIs that accept a domain name, the request might specify a domain name that doesn't belong to the account that submitted the request. For AcceptDomainTransferFromAnotherAwsAccount, the password might be invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationLimitExceeded

The number of operations or jobs running exceeded the allowed threshold for the account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TLDRulesViolation

The top-level domain does not support this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedTLD

Amazon Route 53 does not support this top-level domain (TLD).

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

TransferDomain Example

This example illustrates one usage of TransferDomain.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
host:route53domains.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
x-amz-date:20140711T205230Z
authorization:AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
              Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20140711/us-east-1/route53domains/aws4_request,
              SignedHeaders=content-length;content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target,
              Signature=[calculated-signature]
x-amz-target:Route53Domains_v20140515.TransferDomain
user-agent:aws-sdk-java/1.8.3 Linux/2.6.18-164.el5PAE Java_HotSpot (TM )_Server_VM/24.60-b09/1.7.0_60
content-type:application/x-amz-json-1.1
content-length:[number of characters in the JSON string]
{
   "DomainName":"example.com",
   "DurationInYears":1,
   "Nameservers":[
      {
         "Name":"ns-2048.awsdns-64.com",
         "GlueIps":[
         "192.0.2.11"
         ]
      },
      {
         "Name":"ns-2049.awsdns-65.net",
         "GlueIps":[
         "192.0.2.12"
         ]
      }
   ],
    "AuthCode":"a42qxjz1",
   "AutoRenew":true,
   "AdminContact":{
      "FirstName":"John",
      "MiddleName":"Richard",
      "LastName":"Doe",
      "ContactType":"PERSON",
      "OrganizationName":"",
      "AddressLine1":"123 Any Street",
      "AddressLine2":"",
      "City":"Any Town",
      "State":"WA",
      "CountryCode":"US",
      "ZipCode":"98101",
      "PhoneNumber":"+2065550100",
      "Email":"john@example.com",
      "Fax":"+206555-0101"
   },
   "RegistrantContact":{
      "FirstName":"John",
      "MiddleName":"Richard",
      "LastName":"Doe",
      "ContactType":"PERSON",
      "OrganizationName":"",
      "AddressLine1":"123 Any Street",
      "AddressLine2":"",
      "City":"Any Town",
      "State":"WA",
      "CountryCode":"US",
      "ZipCode":"98101",
      "PhoneNumber":"+2065550100",
      "Email":"john@example.com",
      "Fax":"+206555-0101"
   },
   "TechContact":{
      "FirstName":"John",
      "MiddleName":"Richard",
      "LastName":"Doe",
      "ContactType":"PERSON",
      "OrganizationName":"",
      "AddressLine1":"123 Any Street",
      "AddressLine2":"",
      "City":"Any Town",
      "State":"WA",
      "CountryCode":"US",
      "ZipCode":"98101",
      "PhoneNumber":"+2065550100",
      "Email":"john@example.com",
      "Fax":"+206555-0101"
   },
   "PrivacyProtectAdminContact":true,
   "PrivacyProtectRegistrantContact":true,
   "PrivacyProtectTechContact":true,
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Length:[number of characters in the JSON string]
{
"OperationId":"308c56712-faa4-40fe-94c8-b423069de3f6"
}