Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying false details during the domain registration process or altering the authentic info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you have ordered a shared hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal details safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domains. Its color will tell you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal info even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon signup. 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 Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes just a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.