In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Besides, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud isn’t that rare. For this reason, registrar companies have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your details with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is unbelievably easy in case you’ve got a Linux shared website hosting. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it completely – in case you want to transfer a given domain name to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact info with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unauthorized people.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated plan. If a given generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a mini button to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and decide to conceal your personal information from the general public after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.