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CheckDomainTransferability

Checks whether a domain name can be transferred to Amazon Route 53.

Request Syntax


{
   "AuthCode": "string",
   "DomainName": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AuthCode

If the registrar for the top-level domain (TLD) requires an authorization code to transfer the domain, the code that you got from the current registrar for the domain.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

DomainName

The name of the domain that you want to transfer to Route 53. The top-level domain (TLD), such as .com, must be a TLD that Route 53 supports. For a list of supported TLDs, see Domains that You Can Register with Amazon Route 53 in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

The domain name can contain only the following characters:

Letters a through z. Domain names are not case sensitive.
Numbers 0 through 9.
Hyphen (-). You can't specify a hyphen at the beginning or end of a label.
Period (.) to separate the labels in the name, such as the . in example.com.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 255.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "Message": "string",
   "Transferability": { 
      "Transferable": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Message

Provides an explanation for when a domain can't be transferred.

Type: String

Transferability

A complex type that contains information about whether the specified domain can be transferred to Route 53.

Type: DomainTransferability object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidInput

The requested item is not acceptable. For example, for APIs that accept a domain name, the request might specify a domain name that doesn't belong to the account that submitted the request. For AcceptDomainTransferFromAnotherAwsAccount, the password might be invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedTLD

Amazon Route 53 does not support this top-level domain (TLD).

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

CheckDomainTransferability Example

This example illustrates one usage of CheckDomainTransferability.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
host:route53domains.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
x-amz-date:20140711T205225Z
authorization:AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
              Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20140711/us-east-1/route53domains/aws4_request,
              SignedHeaders=content-length;content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target,
              Signature=[calculated-signature]
x-amz-target:Route53Domains_v20140515.CheckDomainTransferability
user-agent:aws-sdk-java/1.8.3 Linux/2.6.18-164.el5PAE Java_HotSpot (TM )_Server_VM/24.60-b09/1.7.0_60
content-type:application/x-amz-json-1.1
content-length:[number of characters in the JSON string]
connections:Keep-Alive
{
   "DomainName": "example.com",
   "AuthCode": "T92XJ38"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Length:[number of characters in the JSON string]
{
   "Transferability":
      {"Transferable":"TRANSFERABLE"}
}