{"id":1459,"date":"2009-08-18T12:53:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:47:02","slug":"what-is-an-authorisation-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/domains\/what-is-an-authorisation-code\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an \u2018Authorisation code\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <b>\u2018Authorisation code\u2019<\/b> (also referred to as an \u2018Auth-Info\u2019 code or an \u2018EPP\u2019 code) provides an extra level of security for the domain name registration.<\/p>\n<p>The Auth-Info code is unique for each domain name and is assigned by the registrar at the time the domain name is registered.<\/p>\n<p>A confirmation of your Authorisation code is required by the registry in order to transfer a domain name with the extension <strong>.com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info, .cc, .co, .mobi, .capetown, .joburg, .durban, .africa <\/strong>to xneelo.<\/p>\n<p>Authorisation codes must be recovered from your current registrar <strong>prior to initiating the domain name transfer request<\/strong>. Once the transfer is initiated, you will be required to use the code when approving the domain transfer request.<\/p>\n<p>If you are <strong>transferring your domain away from xneelo<\/strong>, then we will provide you with the Authorisation code after you have cancelled your account.<\/p>\n<p>You may also require your Authorisation code if you would like to list your domain on a domain marketplace. You may <a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> in order to receive your domain&#8217;s Authorisation code.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"An <b>\u2018Authorisation code\u2019<\/b> (also referred to as an \u2018Auth-Info\u2019 code or an \u2018EPP\u2019 code) provides an extra level of security for the domain name registration.\r\n\r\nThe Auth-Info code is unique for each domain name and is assigned by the registrar at the time the domain name is registered.\r\n\r\nA confirmation of your Authorisation code is required by the registry in order to transfer a domain name with the extension <strong>.com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info, .cc, .co, .mobi, .capetown, .joburg, .durban, .africa <\/strong>to xneelo.\r\n\r\nAuthorisation codes must be recovered from your current registrar <strong>prior to initiating the domain name transfer request<\/strong>. Once the transfer is initiated, you will be required to use the code when approving the domain transfer request.\r\n\r\nIf you are <strong>transferring your domain away from xneelo<\/strong>, then we will provide you with the Authorisation code after you have cancelled your account.\r\n\r\nYou may also require your Authorisation code if you would like to list your domain on a domain marketplace. You may <a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> in order to receive your domain's Authorisation code."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Authorisation code is unique for each domain name and is assigned by the registrar at the time the domain name is registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[155,158],"tags":[19167,16895,16901,459,461],"topics":[10391,21056],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","category-update-and-upgrade-domains","tag-what-is-an-authorisation-code","tag-transfer-away","tag-epp-code","tag-auth-code","tag-authorisation-code","topics-domain-transfers","topics-web-hosting"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":155,"name":"Domains","slug":"domains","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":155,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Registering and Transferring Domains ","parent":0,"count":74,"filter":"raw","term_order":"61","cat_ID":155,"category_count":74,"category_description":"Registering and Transferring Domains ","cat_name":"Domains","category_nicename":"domains","category_parent":0},{"term_id":158,"name":"Update and Upgrade Domains","slug":"update-and-upgrade-domains","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":158,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Update and Upgrade your Domains","parent":155,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"111","cat_ID":158,"category_count":11,"category_description":"Update and Upgrade your Domains","cat_name":"Update and Upgrade Domains","category_nicename":"update-and-upgrade-domains","category_parent":155}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":19167,"name":"What is an \u2018Authorisation code\u2019?","slug":"what-is-an-authorisation-code","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19167,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1749"},{"term_id":16895,"name":"transfer away","slug":"transfer-away","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16895,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2482"},{"term_id":16901,"name":"epp code","slug":"epp-code","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16901,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2484"},{"term_id":459,"name":"auth code","slug":"auth-code","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":459,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2805"},{"term_id":461,"name":"authorisation code","slug":"authorisation-code","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":461,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2827"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"marketing","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/marketing\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a6ea315e112423b2b955cb020fbce2b0835956c6ad85ff0f13f1db298977eaaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}