EPP Transfer Protection

Learn what EPP is really, what it's employed for and why it’s crucial for your domains.

If you decide to transfer a domain from one domain registrar to another, you will need to go through a few safety procedures. One of them is obtaining a special EPP code from the current domain registrar – as long as you are the registrant, since the code is sent to the domain owner’s email and no one else can get it. You have to give this code to the new domain name registrar, or else they won’t be able to initiate the domain transfer. The EPP authentication codes are case-sensitive and may include digits or special characters such as commas or dots, which can be easily miswritten, so make sure you copy and paste the right code. As an additional protection measure, the transfer code for a domain name may be changed on a regular basis. Certain domain registrars refer to this code as a domain password, a domain secret or an Auth key as well.

EPP Transfer Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can get the EPP transfer code for any domain that you have registered through our company with only a couple of mouse clicks from the exact same Hepsia Control Panel that you’ll use to administer your cloud hosting account. As soon as you visit the Registered Domains section, you will find all your domain names conveniently shown in alphabetical order. If some extension supports transfers between domain registrars with an EPP code, you’ll see an EPP button to the right of the given domain name. If you click that button, the code will be sent to the email address associated with the Registrant contact for the given domain. If needed, you can update the contact info, including the email, without even leaving this Control Panel section, if the currently entered email address isn’t valid anymore.