Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be openly available. Supplying false details during the domain name registration process or altering the authentic details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the arising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. In this way, you can shield your personal info even if you have not enabled the service upon signup. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a couple of simple steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through us after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will require no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse.