Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS check websites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be freely visible. Giving false info during the registration procedure or changing the authentic details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact details will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private info safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will inform you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just several mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your private details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order procedure. You will 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 Servers
In case you’d like to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any time afterwards through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered with our company will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain name. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the service or turn it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain to some other registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain name to be visible.