RetrieveDomainAuthCode
This operation returns the authorization code for the domain. To transfer a domain to another registrar, you provide this value to the new registrar.
Request Syntax
{
"DomainName": "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.
- DomainName
-
The name of the domain that you want to get an authorization code for.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 255.
Required: Yes
Response Syntax
{
"AuthCode": "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.
- AuthCode
-
The authorization code for the domain.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1024.
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- 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
- UnsupportedTLD
-
Amazon Route 53 does not support this top-level domain (TLD).
HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
RetrieveDomainAuthCode Example
This example illustrates one usage of RetrieveDomainAuthCode.
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.RetrieveDomainAuthCode
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"
}Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Length:[number of characters in the JSON string]
{
"AuthCode":"rqL3*REjYH"
}See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
