Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, address and email account of any domain registrant will be openly accessible. Providing false info upon registration or changing the authentic info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you order a shared web hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated plan. In case a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names later if you think things over and choose to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.