Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS check web sites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Providing false info during the domain name registration process or changing the authentic information subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact info will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared hosting plan from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your private data even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is very easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated package. In case a particular generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a mini symbol on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order procedure too, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private information from the public after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.