Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without this service, the personal name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be openly visible. Providing false information during the domain registration procedure or changing the real details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information 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 increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar company’s contact details will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you have ordered a shared plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domains. Its colour will tell you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal info even if you haven’t added the 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 domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in a couple of easy steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will take just several clicks of the mouse.