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

TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount

Transfers a domain from the current AWS account to another AWS account. Note the following:

The AWS account that you're transferring the domain to must accept the transfer. If the other account doesn't accept the transfer within 3 days, we cancel the transfer. See AcceptDomainTransferFromAnotherAwsAccount.
You can cancel the transfer before the other account accepts it. See CancelDomainTransferToAnotherAwsAccount.
The other account can reject the transfer. See RejectDomainTransferFromAnotherAwsAccount.

Important

When you transfer a domain from one AWS account to another, Route 53 doesn't transfer the hosted zone that is associated with the domain. DNS resolution isn't affected if the domain and the hosted zone are owned by separate accounts, so transferring the hosted zone is optional. For information about transferring the hosted zone to another AWS account, see Migrating a Hosted Zone to a Different AWS Account in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

Use either ListOperations or GetOperationDetail to determine whether the operation succeeded. GetOperationDetail provides additional information, for example, Domain Transfer from Aws Account 111122223333 has been cancelled.

Request Syntax


{
   "AccountId": "string",
   "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.

AccountId

The account ID of the AWS account that you want to transfer the domain to, for example, 111122223333.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.

Pattern: ^(\d{12})$

Required: Yes

DomainName

The name of the domain that you want to transfer from the current AWS account to another account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 255.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "OperationId": "string",
   "Password": "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.

Password

To finish transferring a domain to another AWS account, the account that the domain is being transferred to must submit an AcceptDomainTransferFromAnotherAwsAccount request. The request must include the value of the Password element that was returned in the TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount response.

Type: String

Errors

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

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

UnsupportedTLD

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

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount Example

This example illustrates one usage of TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
host:route53domains.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
x-amz-date:20200311T205230Z
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.TransferDomainToAnotherAwsAccount
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",
    "AccountId":"111122223333"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Length:[number of characters in the JSON string]
{
    "OperationId":"308c56712-faa4-40fe-94c8-b4230example",
    "Password":"CeT2Zxs~Example"
}