Modifying Contact Details

Attention

This API Call will be deprecated from 1st December 2016 due to IRTP changes in the system. Modifying a Contact is no longer allowed and only New Contacts can be created and associated with a domain.

Description

Modifies the details of the specified Contact.

Parameters

Name Data Type Required / Optional Description
auth-userid Integer Required Authentication Parameter
api-key String Required Authentication Parameter
contact-id Integer Required Contact ID of the Contact whose details you want to modify
name String Required Name of Contact
company String Required

Name of the Company

the contact ID created for a natural person should have the company name listed as 'N/A'
email String Required Email address of the Contact
address-line-1 String Required First line of address of the Contact
city String Required Name of the City
zipcode String Required ZIP code
phone-cc String Required Telephone number Country Code
phone String Required Telephone number
country String Required

Country code as per ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
address-line-2 String Optional Second line of address of the Contact
address-line-3 String Optional Third line of address of the Contact
state String Optional Name of the State
fax-cc String Optional Fax number Country Code
fax String Optional Fax number
Note

  • You will encounter the below error message in case the Contact is associated with one or more suspended domain name(s):

    Attention

    Change of this contact is not allowed as it is associated with a suspended domain

  • Unused Contacts (except Default Contacts) that were created more than six months ago are archived. Details of archived Contacts cannot be modified using this API call.

    Additional Information

    Default Contacts

  • You may not modify through this API call any Contact Details of any of the Contacts, of a registered .ES domain name.

    If you wish to transfer the ownership of a .ES domain name to another entity, the transfer procedure needs to be followed.

    Additional Information

    Process of transferring the ownership of a .ES domain name

    You may add another .ES Contact and select the same as the Admin, Technical and / or Billing Contact.

    Additional Information

    Adding a Domain Name Contact

    Modifying Domain Name Contacts

  • You may not modify through this API call any Contact Details of any of the Contacts, of a registered .NYC domain name.

    You may add another .NYC Contact and select the same as the Registrant, Admin, Technical and / or Billing Contact.

    Additional Information

    Adding a Domain Name Contact

    Modifying Domain Name Contacts

  • You may only modify the phone-cc, phone, fax-cc, fax and email values for Contacts associated with a .RU domain name. See details

HTTP Method

POST

Example Test URL Request

https://test.httpapi.com/api/contacts/modify.json?auth-userid=0&api-key=key&contact-id=0&name=abc&company=company&[email protected]&address-line-1=address1&address-line-2=address2&city=city&country=nn&zipcode=0&phone-cc=0&phone=0

Response

Returns a hash map containing the below details:

  • Contact ID (entityid)

  • Action Type (actiontype)

  • Description of the Contact Modification Action (actiontypedesc)

  • Action ID of the Contact Modification Action (eaqid)

  • Contact Modification Action Status (actionstatus)

  • Description of the Contact Modification Action Status (actionstatusdesc)

In case of any errors, a status key with value as ERROR alongwith an error message will be returned.