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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

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.