Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly available. Giving false information during the domain registration procedure or altering the authentic details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t need to log in and out of different platforms. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires only several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.