EPP Transfer Protection
What's an EPP code? What is its purpose? How important is it as far as domain name transfers are concerned?
If you’d like to transfer a domain from one registrar to another, you will have to go through several security procedures. One of them is getting a special EPP authorization code from the current registrar company – as long as you are the registrant, since the code is emailed to the domain owner’s mailbox and no one else can get it. You have to give this code to the new registrar company, or else they won’t be able to initiate the domain name transfer procedure. The EPP authentication codes are case-sensitive and may comprise of numbers or special characters such as dots or commas, which can be easily miswritten, so make sure you copy & paste the right code. As an additional security measure, the transfer code for a domain name may be changed on a regular basis. Certain registrar companies call this code an Auth key, a domain secret or a domain password as well.
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EPP Transfer Protection in Shared Hosting
Obtaining the EPP transfer code for any domain registered through us under a
shared hosting account is very easy. You won’t need to sign in and out of different tools, as you can administer both your domain names and your shared web hosting account from one and the same place – our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel. To obtain the EPP transfer code for any domain, you simply have to go to the Registered Domains section and to click the mini EPP logo, which will be located next to each domain whose extension supports transfers with an EPP code. Our system will email the code to the domain name registrant’s email momentarily. If you want to update the email, you can do it from the same section of the hosting Control Panel with only several clicks of the mouse.