{"id":1338,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1771890-how-to-transfer-a-eu-domain-to-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:21:59","slug":"1771890-how-to-transfer-a-eu-domain-to-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1771890-how-to-transfer-a-eu-domain-to-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to transfer a .eu domain to Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">While the general domain <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-transfer-process\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583436-how-to-transfer-a-domain-to-hostinger\/\">transfer process<\/a> applies to most TLDs, some domain extensions, such as <b>.eu<\/b> have additional requirements that need to be taken into consideration for successful domain transfer.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-get-your-eu-authorization-code\">Get your .eu authorization code<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To initiate <b>.eu <\/b>domain transfer, you obtain<b> an authorization code<\/b> from your current registrar, or get it directly from the <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-my-eu\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eurid.eu\/en\/my-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My .eu<\/a><\/b> account.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">The authorization code consists of <b>16 letters and digits<\/b> separated by dashes in the following format:<\/p><pre><code>XXXX-AAAA-BBBB-CCCC<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">After requesting the authorization code, you&rsquo;ll receive an email from the <b>European Registry of Internet Domain Names <\/b>(<b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-eurid\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eurid.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EURid<\/a><\/b>), and be able to initiate your <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-domain-transfer-to-hostinger\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583436-how-to-transfer-a-domain-to-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domain transfer to Hostinger<\/a><\/b> &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Other TLDs require an <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-epp-or-auth-code\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583441-what-is-the-epp-code-and-how-to-use-it-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPP or Auth code<\/a><\/b> for domain transfer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquiring an authorization code for .EU domain transfers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transfer-domain-to-hostinger"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1771890-how-to-transfer-a-eu-domain-to-hostinger","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1771890-como-transferir-un-dominio-eu-a-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1771890-tout-savoir-sur-le-transfert-de-domaine-eu","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1771890-cara-transfer-domain-eu-ke-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1771890-tudo-sobre-transferencia-de-dominio-eu-na-hostinger","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14689,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/14689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}