In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Moreover, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud is not that unusual. This is why domain registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your private details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you get a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is incredibly easy – once you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a given generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small sign next to that domain. To enable the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon registration too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you think things over and choose to conceal your private details from the public eye after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.