'Company A' is scheduled to merge with its parent company, 'Company B'. Both A and B have Apple accounts.
A's account has one domain registered for Apple Pay integration, while Account B has no domain registered.
We attempted to register A’s domain under B’s account.
However, the notification 'Requested domain name has been verified previously.' appeared, and we could not complete the registration.
Please confirm whether it is correct that a domain already registered under Account A cannot be registered again under Account B.
If we cannot register same domain in two accounts, we believe that the domain registered under A's account must be deleted first and then registered under B's account.
In that case, will payments become unavailable immediately upon deletion of the domain, or will payments still be possible for a certain period of time after deletion?
In our testing, we found that payments were not blocked immediately, but we would like to confirm further.
We are concerned about the possibility of transaction failures during the short period between deleting the domain from A's Account and registering it under B's Account.
Hi @Ivy0905,
You wrote:
Please confirm whether it is correct that a domain already registered under Account A cannot be registered again under Account B.
Correct, the merchant IDs and domains are unique to a single developer team (and merchant).
However, if you can use a Payment Service Provider (PSP) to register the new domain, then both entities could concurrently create payments on the same domain (assuming the correct merchant ID is used for each respective transaction).
Alternatively, if payments for these two entities are being made on separate subdomains, both teams can register each separate subdomain too.
For more information about multiple providers and merchant registrations, please see the following post:
Apple Pay Web and Ecommerce site hosting Multiple Merchants on a Single Domain Site
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/61538?answerId=829805022#829805022
Then, you wrote:
In that case, will payments become unavailable immediately upon deletion of the domain, or will payments still be possible for a certain period of time after deletion?
The payment sessions are expected to fail merchant validation without a valid domain mapping. To mitigate payment failures, consider using a subdomain for the new merchant registration (and possibly configure the existing merchant to handle its own subdomain as well—A (example.com, subdomainA.example.com, B—subdomainB.example.com).
Cheers,
Paris X Pinkney | WWDR | DTS Engineer
