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The EPP account fork operation will be released on 9 Sep 2008.

The <account:fork> command allows a number of domain names on an account to be moved to a copy of that account. An account fork is requested by enclosing an <account:fork> element within an <update> command.

<account:fork> element

The <account:fork> element contains the following sub-elements:

An optional <account:roid> element giving the account that the domain names are to be forked from.
One or more <account:domain-name> elements giving domain names to fork from the account.

If the <account:roid> element is provided then the domain names must all be on that account, otherwise the domain names must all be on a single account.

Example account fork request

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
  <epp xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0
       epp-1.0.xsd">
    <command>
      <update>
        <account:fork
          xmlns:account="http://www.nominet.org.uk/epp/xml/nom-account-1.1"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.nominet.org.uk/epp/xml/nom-account-1.1
          nom-account-1.1.xsd">
          <account:roid>567867845</account:roid>
          <account:domain-name>example1.co.uk</account:domain-name>
          <account:domain-name>example2.co.uk</account:domain-name>
          <account:domain-name>example3.co.uk</account:domain-name>
        </account:fork>
      </update>
      <clTRID>ABC-123</clTRID>
    </command>
  </epp>

Example account fork response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
  <epp  xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0
        epp-1.0.xsd">
    <response>
      <result code="1000">
        <msg>Command completed successfully   </msg>    
      </result>
      <resData>
        <account:creData>
          <account:roid>100029-UK</account:roid>
          <account:name>Mr R. Strant</account:name>
          <account:contact type="admin" order="1">
           <contact:creData>
            <contact:roid>C100081-UK</contact:roid>
            <contact:name>Mr R. Strant</contact:name>
           </contact:creData>
          </account:contact>
          <account:crDate>2008-01-12T15:00:12</account:crDate>
        </account:creData>
      </resData>
    </response>
  </epp>

Notes

Details of the new account created are included in an <account:creData> element included in the <resData> element.