Changing the Registrant of a Domain Name

IMPORTANT NOTE: this command is now deprecated. All requests will be processed and accepted, but will have no effect on the database. The registrant of a domain name is now specified by the chandle field. Changing this field using the modify command will effect a registrant change.

Synopsis

DescriptionA command to change the legal registrant of a domain name.
URLhttps://toolkit.centralnic.com/srv/registrant_transfer
HTTP MethodPOST
Requires Authentication?Yes
Requires SSL?Yes
 
Query Parameters:
testThe test flag (eg 1 or 0, optional)
userYour Registrar ID (eg H12345)
passwordYour Toolkit Password
domainThe domain name (eg example.uk.com)
registrantThe new registrant for the domain name

Please note that the registrant parameter must be a text string. It is not a contact object ID.

If the new registrant is the same as the current registrant, the command will return an error.

Response Format

The response will be of the form

Transaction-ID: e2ca01ad7135e787a5e97ad5b421ed74
Status: 0
Message: Domain transferred OK.

In the event of an error, the server will return something like this:Transaction-ID: e2ca01ad7135e787a5e97ad5b421ed74 Status: 1 Message: Domain not found.