# Create transfer

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/domain/post-domain-transfer

> Moves a domain you own at another registrar onto your org here, using its authCode, and answers the same record-plus-quote a purchase does.

`POST /v1/domain/transfer`

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|               |                                           |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/domain/transfer` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                    |
| **Operation** | `post_domain_transfer`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`    |

Moves a domain you own at another registrar onto your org here, using
its authCode, and answers the same record-plus-quote a purchase does.

It is priced and charged exactly like a registration: authorize the org's prepaid
balance, ask the registrar for the transfer, capture only after the registrar
accepts. A name the registrar will not price is 409, an insufficient balance is
402, and a deployment with no registrar credentials is 503.

It requires a validated principal; the ownership record is written under that org
as soon as the registrar ACCEPTS the request, which is not the same instant the
transfer completes at the losing registrar. Unlike a registration this does not
provision a zone, so the record carries this deployment's configured nameservers.

## Request

3 fields, body `application/json` (required).

| Field      | In   | Type            | Required | Description                                                         |
| ---------- | ---- | --------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `authCode` | body | string          | yes      | AuthCode is the transfer authorization the losing registrar issued. |
| `domain`   | body | string          | yes      | Domain is the name to move in.                                      |
| `years`    | body | integer (int64) | —        | Years is the term to buy on transfer, defaulting to 1.              |

## Response

| Status    | Body                  | Meaning |
| --------- | --------------------- | ------- |
| `200`     | domain.RegisterResult | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details       | refused |

`200` body — 17 fields.

| Field                     | In   | Type            | Always | Description                                            |
| ------------------------- | ---- | --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| `quote`                   | body | domain.Offer    | —      |                                                        |
| `quote.available`         | body | boolean         | —      | whether it can be bought right now                     |
| `quote.currency`          | body | string          | —      | the currency both prices are in                        |
| `quote.domain`            | body | string          | —      | the name this quote prices                             |
| `quote.premium`           | body | boolean         | —      | whether the registry prices it above the standard rate |
| `quote.priceCents`        | body | integer (int64) | —      | sell (first-term registration)                         |
| `quote.renewalPriceCents` | body | integer (int64) | —      | sell (renewal)                                         |
| `quote.tld`               | body | string          | —      | the top-level domain the name sits under               |
| `record`                  | body | domain.Holding  | —      |                                                        |
| `record.costCents`        | body | integer (int64) | —      | wholesale cost                                         |
| `record.domain`           | body | string          | —      | the name owned                                         |
| `record.expiresAt`        | body | string          | —      | when the registration lapses, RFC3339                  |
| `record.nameservers`      | body | string\[]       | —      | the authoritative nameservers the name points at       |
| `record.order`            | body | integer (int64) | —      | registrar order id                                     |
| `record.org`              | body | string          | —      | the org that owns the domain                           |
| `record.priceCents`       | body | integer (int64) | —      | what the customer paid (sell)                          |
| `record.registeredAt`     | body | integer (int64) | —      | unix seconds                                           |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo domain transfer \
  --auth-code <authCode> \
  --domain <domain>
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, DomainApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new DomainApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postDomainTransfer({ domain: "<domain>", authCode: "<authCode>" });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import DomainApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = DomainApi(client).post_domain_transfer(domain="<domain>", auth_code="<authCode>")
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.DomainAPI.PostDomainTransfer(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, domain_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = domain_api::post_domain_transfer(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.DomainApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new DomainApi(client).postDomainTransfer();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/domain/transfer \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "domain": "<domain>",
       "authCode": "<authCode>"
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **domain** through the `domain` tool, which names its 7 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "get_domain_availability"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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