Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Supplying fake info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will show up instead of the client’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 Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a shared hosting service. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you will just have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each generic or country-code top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – in case you’d like to transfer a specific domain to some other domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact details with just several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated people.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you skip this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will take only a couple of clicks.