---
title: "Purchase and start or restart transfer process"
method: POST
path: "/v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/{domain}/transfer"
tags: ["Domains"]
---

# Purchase and start or restart transfer process

`POST /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/{domain}/transfer`

## Path parameters

- `customerId` string, required
- `domain` string, required

## Headers

- `X-Request-Id` string

## Request body

- DomainTransferInV2
  - `authCode` string, required — Authorization code from registrar for transferring a domain
  - `period` integer — Can be more than 1 but no more than 10 years total including current registration length
  - `renewAuto` boolean — Whether or not the domain should be configured to automatically renew
  - `privacy` boolean — Whether or not privacy has been requested
  - `identityDocumentId` string — Unique identifier of the identify document that the user wants to associate with the domain being transferred in. This is required only if the gaining registry has a requirement for an approved identity document
  - `consent` ConsentV2, required
    - `agreementKeys` string[], required — Unique identifiers of the legal agreements to which the end-user has agreed, as returned from the/domains/agreements endpoint
    - `price` integer, required — Price of the domain excluding taxes or fees. Please use GET /v1/domains/available to retrieve the price and currency for the domain
    - `currency` string, iso-currency-code, required — Currency in which the `price` is listed
    - `registryPremiumPricing` boolean — Only required for hosted registrar if domain is premium. If true indicates that the `price` and `currency` listed are the registry premium price and currency for the domain
    - `agreedBy` string, required — Originating client IP address of the end-user's computer when they consented to these legal agreements
    - `agreedAt` string, iso-datetime, required — Timestamp indicating when the end-user consented to these legal agreements
    - `claimToken` string — The trademark claim token, only needed if the domain has an active trademark claim
  - `contacts` DomainContactsCreateV2
    - `admin` ContactDomainCreate
      - `encoding` 'ASCII' | 'UTF-8', required — The encoding of the contact data<br/><ul><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>ASCII</strong> - Data contains only ASCII characters that are not region or language specific</li><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>UTF-8</strong> - Data contains characters that are specific to a region or language</li></ul>
      - `nameFirst` string, person-name, required
      - `nameMiddle` string
      - `nameLast` string, person-name, required
      - `organization` string, organization-name
      - `jobTitle` string
      - `email` string, email, required
      - `phone` string, phone, required
      - `fax` string, phone
      - `addressMailing` Address, required
        - `address1` string, street-address, required
        - `address2` string, street-address2
        - `city` string, city-name, required
        - `country` 'AC' | 'AD' | 'AE' | 'AF' | 'AG' | 'AI' | 'AL' | 'AM' | 'AO' | 'AQ' | 'AR' | 'AS' | 'AT' | 'AU' | 'AW' | 'AX' | 'AZ' | 'BA' | 'BB' | 'BD' | 'BE' | 'BF' | 'BG' | 'BH' | 'BI' | 'BJ' | 'BM' | 'BN' | 'BO' | 'BQ' | 'BR' | 'BS' | 'BT' | 'BV' | 'BW' | 'BY' | 'BZ' | 'CA' | 'CC' | 'CD' | 'CF' | 'CG' | 'CH' | 'CI' | 'CK' | 'CL' | 'CM' | 'CN' | 'CO' | 'CR' | 'CV' | 'CW' | 'CX' | 'CY' | 'CZ' | 'DE' | 'DJ' | 'DK' | 'DM' | 'DO' | 'DZ' | 'EC' | 'EE' | 'EG' | 'EH' | 'ER' | 'ES' | 'ET' | 'FI' | 'FJ' | 'FK' | 'FM' | 'FO' | 'FR' | 'GA' | 'GB' | 'GD' | 'GE' | 'GF' | 'GG' | 'GH' | 'GI' | 'GL' | 'GM' | 'GN' | 'GP' | 'GQ' | 'GR' | 'GS' | 'GT' | 'GU' | 'GW' | 'GY' | 'HK' | 'HM' | 'HN' | 'HR' | 'HT' | 'HU' | 'ID' | 'IE' | 'IL' | 'IM' | 'IN' | 'IO' | 'IQ' | 'IS' | 'IT' | 'JE' | 'JM' | 'JO' | 'JP' | 'KE' | 'KG' | 'KH' | 'KI' | 'KM' | 'KN' | 'KR' | 'KV' | 'KW' | 'KY' | 'KZ' | 'LA' | 'LB' | 'LC' | 'LI' | 'LK' | 'LR' | 'LS' | 'LT' | 'LU' | 'LV' | 'LY' | 'MA' | 'MC' | 'MD' | 'ME' | 'MG' | 'MH' | 'MK' | 'ML' | 'MM' | 'MN' | 'MO' | 'MP' | 'MQ' | 'MR' | 'MS' | 'MT' | 'MU' | 'MV' | 'MW' | 'MX' | 'MY' | 'MZ' | 'NA' | 'NC' | 'NE' | 'NF' | 'NG' | 'NI' | 'NL' | 'NO' | 'NP' | 'NR' | 'NU' | 'NZ' | 'OM' | 'PA' | 'PE' | 'PF' | 'PG' | 'PH' | 'PK' | 'PL' | 'PM' | 'PN' | 'PR' | 'PS' | 'PT' | 'PW' | 'PY' | 'QA' | 'RE' | 'RO' | 'RS' | 'RU' | 'RW' | 'SA' | 'SB' | 'SC' | 'SE' | 'SG' | 'SH' | 'SI' | 'SJ' | 'SK' | 'SL' | 'SM' | 'SN' | 'SO' | 'SR' | 'ST' | 'SV' | 'SX' | 'SZ' | 'TC' | 'TD' | 'TF' | 'TG' | 'TH' | 'TJ' | 'TK' | 'TL' | 'TM' | 'TN' | 'TO' | 'TP' | 'TR' | 'TT' | 'TV' | 'TW' | 'TZ' | 'UA' | 'UG' | 'UM' | 'US' | 'UY' | 'UZ' | 'VA' | 'VC' | 'VE' | 'VG' | 'VI' | 'VN' | 'VU' | 'WF' | 'WS' | 'YE' | 'YT' | 'ZA' | 'ZM' | 'ZW', iso-country-code, required — Two-letter ISO country code to be used as a hint for target region<br/><br/> NOTE: These are sample values, there are many <a href='http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm'>more</a>
        - `postalCode` string, postal-code, required — Postal or zip code
        - `state` string, state-province-territory, required — State or province or territory
      - `metadata` object — The contact eligibility data fields as specified by GET /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/contacts/schema/{tld}
    - `adminId` string — Unique identifier of the contact that the user wants to use for the domain admin contact. This can be specified instead of the `admin` property.
    - `billing` ContactDomainCreate
      - `encoding` 'ASCII' | 'UTF-8', required — The encoding of the contact data<br/><ul><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>ASCII</strong> - Data contains only ASCII characters that are not region or language specific</li><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>UTF-8</strong> - Data contains characters that are specific to a region or language</li></ul>
      - `nameFirst` string, person-name, required
      - `nameMiddle` string
      - `nameLast` string, person-name, required
      - `organization` string, organization-name
      - `jobTitle` string
      - `email` string, email, required
      - `phone` string, phone, required
      - `fax` string, phone
      - `addressMailing` Address, required
        - `address1` string, street-address, required
        - `address2` string, street-address2
        - `city` string, city-name, required
        - `country` 'AC' | 'AD' | 'AE' | 'AF' | 'AG' | 'AI' | 'AL' | 'AM' | 'AO' | 'AQ' | 'AR' | 'AS' | 'AT' | 'AU' | 'AW' | 'AX' | 'AZ' | 'BA' | 'BB' | 'BD' | 'BE' | 'BF' | 'BG' | 'BH' | 'BI' | 'BJ' | 'BM' | 'BN' | 'BO' | 'BQ' | 'BR' | 'BS' | 'BT' | 'BV' | 'BW' | 'BY' | 'BZ' | 'CA' | 'CC' | 'CD' | 'CF' | 'CG' | 'CH' | 'CI' | 'CK' | 'CL' | 'CM' | 'CN' | 'CO' | 'CR' | 'CV' | 'CW' | 'CX' | 'CY' | 'CZ' | 'DE' | 'DJ' | 'DK' | 'DM' | 'DO' | 'DZ' | 'EC' | 'EE' | 'EG' | 'EH' | 'ER' | 'ES' | 'ET' | 'FI' | 'FJ' | 'FK' | 'FM' | 'FO' | 'FR' | 'GA' | 'GB' | 'GD' | 'GE' | 'GF' | 'GG' | 'GH' | 'GI' | 'GL' | 'GM' | 'GN' | 'GP' | 'GQ' | 'GR' | 'GS' | 'GT' | 'GU' | 'GW' | 'GY' | 'HK' | 'HM' | 'HN' | 'HR' | 'HT' | 'HU' | 'ID' | 'IE' | 'IL' | 'IM' | 'IN' | 'IO' | 'IQ' | 'IS' | 'IT' | 'JE' | 'JM' | 'JO' | 'JP' | 'KE' | 'KG' | 'KH' | 'KI' | 'KM' | 'KN' | 'KR' | 'KV' | 'KW' | 'KY' | 'KZ' | 'LA' | 'LB' | 'LC' | 'LI' | 'LK' | 'LR' | 'LS' | 'LT' | 'LU' | 'LV' | 'LY' | 'MA' | 'MC' | 'MD' | 'ME' | 'MG' | 'MH' | 'MK' | 'ML' | 'MM' | 'MN' | 'MO' | 'MP' | 'MQ' | 'MR' | 'MS' | 'MT' | 'MU' | 'MV' | 'MW' | 'MX' | 'MY' | 'MZ' | 'NA' | 'NC' | 'NE' | 'NF' | 'NG' | 'NI' | 'NL' | 'NO' | 'NP' | 'NR' | 'NU' | 'NZ' | 'OM' | 'PA' | 'PE' | 'PF' | 'PG' | 'PH' | 'PK' | 'PL' | 'PM' | 'PN' | 'PR' | 'PS' | 'PT' | 'PW' | 'PY' | 'QA' | 'RE' | 'RO' | 'RS' | 'RU' | 'RW' | 'SA' | 'SB' | 'SC' | 'SE' | 'SG' | 'SH' | 'SI' | 'SJ' | 'SK' | 'SL' | 'SM' | 'SN' | 'SO' | 'SR' | 'ST' | 'SV' | 'SX' | 'SZ' | 'TC' | 'TD' | 'TF' | 'TG' | 'TH' | 'TJ' | 'TK' | 'TL' | 'TM' | 'TN' | 'TO' | 'TP' | 'TR' | 'TT' | 'TV' | 'TW' | 'TZ' | 'UA' | 'UG' | 'UM' | 'US' | 'UY' | 'UZ' | 'VA' | 'VC' | 'VE' | 'VG' | 'VI' | 'VN' | 'VU' | 'WF' | 'WS' | 'YE' | 'YT' | 'ZA' | 'ZM' | 'ZW', iso-country-code, required — Two-letter ISO country code to be used as a hint for target region<br/><br/> NOTE: These are sample values, there are many <a href='http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm'>more</a>
        - `postalCode` string, postal-code, required — Postal or zip code
        - `state` string, state-province-territory, required — State or province or territory
      - `metadata` object — The contact eligibility data fields as specified by GET /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/contacts/schema/{tld}
    - `billingId` string — Unique identifier of the contact that the user wants to use for the domain billing contact. This can be specified instead of the `billing` property.
    - `registrant` ContactDomainCreate
      - `encoding` 'ASCII' | 'UTF-8', required — The encoding of the contact data<br/><ul><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>ASCII</strong> - Data contains only ASCII characters that are not region or language specific</li><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>UTF-8</strong> - Data contains characters that are specific to a region or language</li></ul>
      - `nameFirst` string, person-name, required
      - `nameMiddle` string
      - `nameLast` string, person-name, required
      - `organization` string, organization-name
      - `jobTitle` string
      - `email` string, email, required
      - `phone` string, phone, required
      - `fax` string, phone
      - `addressMailing` Address, required
        - `address1` string, street-address, required
        - `address2` string, street-address2
        - `city` string, city-name, required
        - `country` 'AC' | 'AD' | 'AE' | 'AF' | 'AG' | 'AI' | 'AL' | 'AM' | 'AO' | 'AQ' | 'AR' | 'AS' | 'AT' | 'AU' | 'AW' | 'AX' | 'AZ' | 'BA' | 'BB' | 'BD' | 'BE' | 'BF' | 'BG' | 'BH' | 'BI' | 'BJ' | 'BM' | 'BN' | 'BO' | 'BQ' | 'BR' | 'BS' | 'BT' | 'BV' | 'BW' | 'BY' | 'BZ' | 'CA' | 'CC' | 'CD' | 'CF' | 'CG' | 'CH' | 'CI' | 'CK' | 'CL' | 'CM' | 'CN' | 'CO' | 'CR' | 'CV' | 'CW' | 'CX' | 'CY' | 'CZ' | 'DE' | 'DJ' | 'DK' | 'DM' | 'DO' | 'DZ' | 'EC' | 'EE' | 'EG' | 'EH' | 'ER' | 'ES' | 'ET' | 'FI' | 'FJ' | 'FK' | 'FM' | 'FO' | 'FR' | 'GA' | 'GB' | 'GD' | 'GE' | 'GF' | 'GG' | 'GH' | 'GI' | 'GL' | 'GM' | 'GN' | 'GP' | 'GQ' | 'GR' | 'GS' | 'GT' | 'GU' | 'GW' | 'GY' | 'HK' | 'HM' | 'HN' | 'HR' | 'HT' | 'HU' | 'ID' | 'IE' | 'IL' | 'IM' | 'IN' | 'IO' | 'IQ' | 'IS' | 'IT' | 'JE' | 'JM' | 'JO' | 'JP' | 'KE' | 'KG' | 'KH' | 'KI' | 'KM' | 'KN' | 'KR' | 'KV' | 'KW' | 'KY' | 'KZ' | 'LA' | 'LB' | 'LC' | 'LI' | 'LK' | 'LR' | 'LS' | 'LT' | 'LU' | 'LV' | 'LY' | 'MA' | 'MC' | 'MD' | 'ME' | 'MG' | 'MH' | 'MK' | 'ML' | 'MM' | 'MN' | 'MO' | 'MP' | 'MQ' | 'MR' | 'MS' | 'MT' | 'MU' | 'MV' | 'MW' | 'MX' | 'MY' | 'MZ' | 'NA' | 'NC' | 'NE' | 'NF' | 'NG' | 'NI' | 'NL' | 'NO' | 'NP' | 'NR' | 'NU' | 'NZ' | 'OM' | 'PA' | 'PE' | 'PF' | 'PG' | 'PH' | 'PK' | 'PL' | 'PM' | 'PN' | 'PR' | 'PS' | 'PT' | 'PW' | 'PY' | 'QA' | 'RE' | 'RO' | 'RS' | 'RU' | 'RW' | 'SA' | 'SB' | 'SC' | 'SE' | 'SG' | 'SH' | 'SI' | 'SJ' | 'SK' | 'SL' | 'SM' | 'SN' | 'SO' | 'SR' | 'ST' | 'SV' | 'SX' | 'SZ' | 'TC' | 'TD' | 'TF' | 'TG' | 'TH' | 'TJ' | 'TK' | 'TL' | 'TM' | 'TN' | 'TO' | 'TP' | 'TR' | 'TT' | 'TV' | 'TW' | 'TZ' | 'UA' | 'UG' | 'UM' | 'US' | 'UY' | 'UZ' | 'VA' | 'VC' | 'VE' | 'VG' | 'VI' | 'VN' | 'VU' | 'WF' | 'WS' | 'YE' | 'YT' | 'ZA' | 'ZM' | 'ZW', iso-country-code, required — Two-letter ISO country code to be used as a hint for target region<br/><br/> NOTE: These are sample values, there are many <a href='http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm'>more</a>
        - `postalCode` string, postal-code, required — Postal or zip code
        - `state` string, state-province-territory, required — State or province or territory
      - `metadata` object — The contact eligibility data fields as specified by GET /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/contacts/schema/{tld}
    - `registrantId` string — Unique identifier of the contact that the user wants to use for the domain registrant contact. This can be specified instead of the `registrant` property.
    - `tech` ContactDomainCreate
      - `encoding` 'ASCII' | 'UTF-8', required — The encoding of the contact data<br/><ul><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>ASCII</strong> - Data contains only ASCII characters that are not region or language specific</li><li><strong style='margin-left: 12px;'>UTF-8</strong> - Data contains characters that are specific to a region or language</li></ul>
      - `nameFirst` string, person-name, required
      - `nameMiddle` string
      - `nameLast` string, person-name, required
      - `organization` string, organization-name
      - `jobTitle` string
      - `email` string, email, required
      - `phone` string, phone, required
      - `fax` string, phone
      - `addressMailing` Address, required
        - `address1` string, street-address, required
        - `address2` string, street-address2
        - `city` string, city-name, required
        - `country` 'AC' | 'AD' | 'AE' | 'AF' | 'AG' | 'AI' | 'AL' | 'AM' | 'AO' | 'AQ' | 'AR' | 'AS' | 'AT' | 'AU' | 'AW' | 'AX' | 'AZ' | 'BA' | 'BB' | 'BD' | 'BE' | 'BF' | 'BG' | 'BH' | 'BI' | 'BJ' | 'BM' | 'BN' | 'BO' | 'BQ' | 'BR' | 'BS' | 'BT' | 'BV' | 'BW' | 'BY' | 'BZ' | 'CA' | 'CC' | 'CD' | 'CF' | 'CG' | 'CH' | 'CI' | 'CK' | 'CL' | 'CM' | 'CN' | 'CO' | 'CR' | 'CV' | 'CW' | 'CX' | 'CY' | 'CZ' | 'DE' | 'DJ' | 'DK' | 'DM' | 'DO' | 'DZ' | 'EC' | 'EE' | 'EG' | 'EH' | 'ER' | 'ES' | 'ET' | 'FI' | 'FJ' | 'FK' | 'FM' | 'FO' | 'FR' | 'GA' | 'GB' | 'GD' | 'GE' | 'GF' | 'GG' | 'GH' | 'GI' | 'GL' | 'GM' | 'GN' | 'GP' | 'GQ' | 'GR' | 'GS' | 'GT' | 'GU' | 'GW' | 'GY' | 'HK' | 'HM' | 'HN' | 'HR' | 'HT' | 'HU' | 'ID' | 'IE' | 'IL' | 'IM' | 'IN' | 'IO' | 'IQ' | 'IS' | 'IT' | 'JE' | 'JM' | 'JO' | 'JP' | 'KE' | 'KG' | 'KH' | 'KI' | 'KM' | 'KN' | 'KR' | 'KV' | 'KW' | 'KY' | 'KZ' | 'LA' | 'LB' | 'LC' | 'LI' | 'LK' | 'LR' | 'LS' | 'LT' | 'LU' | 'LV' | 'LY' | 'MA' | 'MC' | 'MD' | 'ME' | 'MG' | 'MH' | 'MK' | 'ML' | 'MM' | 'MN' | 'MO' | 'MP' | 'MQ' | 'MR' | 'MS' | 'MT' | 'MU' | 'MV' | 'MW' | 'MX' | 'MY' | 'MZ' | 'NA' | 'NC' | 'NE' | 'NF' | 'NG' | 'NI' | 'NL' | 'NO' | 'NP' | 'NR' | 'NU' | 'NZ' | 'OM' | 'PA' | 'PE' | 'PF' | 'PG' | 'PH' | 'PK' | 'PL' | 'PM' | 'PN' | 'PR' | 'PS' | 'PT' | 'PW' | 'PY' | 'QA' | 'RE' | 'RO' | 'RS' | 'RU' | 'RW' | 'SA' | 'SB' | 'SC' | 'SE' | 'SG' | 'SH' | 'SI' | 'SJ' | 'SK' | 'SL' | 'SM' | 'SN' | 'SO' | 'SR' | 'ST' | 'SV' | 'SX' | 'SZ' | 'TC' | 'TD' | 'TF' | 'TG' | 'TH' | 'TJ' | 'TK' | 'TL' | 'TM' | 'TN' | 'TO' | 'TP' | 'TR' | 'TT' | 'TV' | 'TW' | 'TZ' | 'UA' | 'UG' | 'UM' | 'US' | 'UY' | 'UZ' | 'VA' | 'VC' | 'VE' | 'VG' | 'VI' | 'VN' | 'VU' | 'WF' | 'WS' | 'YE' | 'YT' | 'ZA' | 'ZM' | 'ZW', iso-country-code, required — Two-letter ISO country code to be used as a hint for target region<br/><br/> NOTE: These are sample values, there are many <a href='http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm'>more</a>
        - `postalCode` string, postal-code, required — Postal or zip code
        - `state` string, state-province-territory, required — State or province or territory
      - `metadata` object — The contact eligibility data fields as specified by GET /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/contacts/schema/{tld}
    - `techId` string — Unique identifier of the contact that the user wants to use for the domain tech contact. This can be specified instead of the `tech` property.
  - `metadata` object — The domain eligibility data fields as specified by GET /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/register/schema/{tld}

## Response `202`

Request Accepted. You may use GET /v2/customers/{customerId}/domains/{domain}/actions/TRANSFER to poll status

## Other responses

- `400` — Request was malformed
- `401` — Authentication info not sent or invalid
- `403` — Authenticated user is not allowed access
- `404` — The domain does not exist
- `409` — There is already a similar action processing
- `422` — Based on restrictions declared in JSON schema returned by `./schema/{tld}`
- `429` — Too many requests received within interval
- `500` — Internal server error

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