Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without protection, the name, address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly visible. Supplying fake details upon registration or changing the real information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will show you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your private information even if you haven’t activated the service during the web hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
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 by taking a few easy steps. If you order a registration or a transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you think things over afterwards, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require just a couple of clicks.