If you’d like to transfer a domain name from one registrar company to another, you will have to go through several safety steps. One of them is obtaining a unique EPP authentication code from the current domain name registrar – as long as you are the domain registrant, since the code is sent to the owner's email account and nobody else can see it. You’ll need 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 codes are case-sensitive and may include numbers or special symbols such as dots or commas, which can be easily mistyped, so make sure you copy and paste the correct code. As an additional safety measure, the transfer code for a domain name may be reset on a regular basis. Some domain name registrars refer to this code as a domain password, an Auth key or a domain secret as well.

EPP Transfer Protection in Web Hosting

In case you’ve got a domain registered through us and you have a web hosting account with us, getting its EPP authentication code is exceptionally easy. You will not need to log in and out of different Control Panels, as you can manage all your domain names via the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to administer your hosting account. You will see all existing domain names as soon as you sign in and on the right side of the domain names whose extensions require an EPP authorization code in order to be transferred, you will see a mini EPP icon. All it takes to obtain the code is to click on the icon. The code is always emailed to the domain owner’s email, so in case the one that you gave originally is not valid any longer, you can change it with several clicks from the very same section.