If you decide to transfer a domain from one registrar company to another, you’ll need to go through a few safety steps. One of them is obtaining a unique EPP authentication code from the present registrar – on the condition that you are the domain registrant, since the code is emailed to the owner's email account and no one else can obtain it. You will have to give this code to the new registrar company, or else they won’t be able to initiate the transfer. The EPP authorization codes are case-sensitive and may contain numbers or special symbols such as commas or dots, which can be easily miswritten, so make sure you copy/paste the correct code. As an additional safety measure, the transfer code for a domain name may be altered regularly. Some registrars refer to this code as an Auth key, a domain secret or a domain password as well.
EPP Transfer Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you have registered a domain name that you want to transfer, you can obtain the EPP transfer authorization code really easy through the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you will administer both your domain names and your account. If you visit the Registered Domains section, you’ll see an EPP logo next to your domain names, as long as their extensions support transfers between domain name registrars with such a code. All codes are emailed automatically by our system to the registrant’s email address to ensure that only the owner of the domain can obtain this information. In case the current email is not valid any longer, you can modify it with a couple of clicks of the mouse without having to leave this section of the Control Panel. The update is instant, so you’ll be able to request the EPP transfer code for the particular domain right away.