Moniker 2FA: how to set up an authenticator app

Moniker is a domain registrar, so your Moniker account holds your domain names, DNS settings and transfer codes. Moniker doesn't leave two-factor authentication (2FA) entirely up to you: if you never choose a method, it turns on email codes for your account by itself (Moniker).

You can replace that email step with one of two stronger options: Standard 2FA, which uses an authenticator app, or Hardware Key 2FA, which uses a security key such as a YubiKey. This guide covers the authenticator app, using Authenticator App - Novaz on iPhone. Any authenticator app works the same way.

How we checked this guide: the Moniker steps come from Moniker's own help center, linked below, including the screenshot in its setup article. We read the pages on October 22, 2026. The help center refused plain automated requests to its web pages and the archived copies weren't reachable, so we read the same articles through the help center's public article feed on support.moniker.com. We haven't tested the steps on a Moniker account, so a label may differ slightly. The Novaz steps are checked against the app, version 1.0.5.

What an authenticator app adds over the default

With the automatic email method, each sign-in asks for your username, your password and a one-time code sent to your registered email address (Moniker). That protects you only as well as your mailbox does.

Two Moniker security features need the app or a hardware key, not the email codes:

• Treasury. This is a protected folder under My Domains. Any change to a domain in it needs a 2FA confirmation, a bulk action that includes one of its domains asks for 2FA too, and transfer requests for its domains are rejected until you take them out (Moniker). You need 2FA turned on to use it.
• Trustee. Moniker's setup article says the Trustee feature is only for customers who turn on app-based or hardware 2FA, and that the email method isn't enough (Moniker).

Turn on 2FA with an authenticator app

Moniker's setup article is short: it points you to the right page and shows a screenshot of it (Moniker, Moniker).

1. Sign in to your Moniker account and open the My Account menu.
2. Go to Account Security. If you land on My Profile instead, choose the Account Security tab at the end of the row of tabs.
3. In the Two-Factor Authentication box, choose Standard 2FA. The screenshot describes it as Two-Factor TOTP Authentication with QR code / Secret Key setup.
4. Moniker shows a QR code. In Novaz, tap +, then Scan QR code, and point the camera at it. If the QR code is on the same iPhone, take a screenshot, tap +, then Choose a photo. See scanning a QR code on the same iPhone.
5. If you can't scan it, use the text key, which Moniker calls the Secret Key. In Novaz, tap +, then Enter key manually. Type Moniker under Service, your username or email under Account if you like, and the key under Setup key. See What is a 2FA setup key?
6. Finish on Moniker's page. Its help doesn't show the screens after step 3, so follow what it asks, which is usually the current code from your app.

Moniker's help doesn't say how many digits its codes have or how often they change. Scanning the QR code is the safer choice, because the code carries those settings to your app. A key typed by hand gets 6 digits every 30 seconds.

Backup codes

Moniker's setup article doesn't mention backup codes. Its account takeover checklist, though, tells you to "Generate and securely store new backup codes" after you set up your authenticator again (Moniker). If Moniker offers you codes during setup, save them. Unless you've turned on iCloud backup in Novaz or exported a backup file, its keys exist only on that iPhone, so those codes are your way back in if the phone is gone. See 2FA backup codes.

If Moniker rejects your code

Moniker's login troubleshooting article only says to make sure you have your authentication device with you, and to contact Support if you can't complete 2FA (Moniker). The most common cause on your side is the iPhone's clock. Open Settings > General > Date & Time and turn on Set Automatically. Novaz warns you when the clock is 15 seconds or more off. More causes are in Authenticator code not working?

Changing phones or resetting the key

Moniker doesn't describe a phone change step by step. Its takeover checklist does describe how to replace an authenticator: remove the existing one in your security settings and enroll again, which creates a new secret key (Moniker). Without a Novaz backup, do the same when you move to a new iPhone, while the old phone still gives you codes. With iCloud backup or a backup file, you can restore your accounts on the new iPhone instead, and your Moniker codes keep working. See How to transfer your authenticator app to a new iPhone.

If you lose your authenticator

Try any backup codes you saved first. Otherwise, email Moniker at getsupport@moniker.com. Moniker says it can lower your account's two-factor level, but may ask for extensive proof that you hold the account (Moniker).

That proof can include an ID check. Moniker's identity article lists account recovery among the cases where it may ask for a passport, national ID card or driving license, checked through the Yoti app with a selfie (Moniker). Moniker doesn't say how long a 2FA reset takes. Domains in the Treasury stay locked against transfers in the meantime. More in Lost the phone with your authenticator app?

Turning 2FA off

Moniker's help doesn't describe turning 2FA off, or say which method an account falls back to once the authenticator app is removed. If you remove it, check what your Account Security page shows afterwards.

Official Moniker help

• How to setup 2FA for your Moniker Account
• Where do I update my Account Settings
• What is the Treasury?
• I use two-factor authentication (2FA) and I can't login
• I Can't Log In to My Account
• If you suspect your account has been taken over: immediate steps
• Why We May Request Identity Verification and How We Use the Yoti App