Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be openly available. Giving fake info during the domain name registration process or altering the real information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you order a website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is extremely easy – once you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is amazingly easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated package. If a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a mini logo next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you think things over and choose to conceal your private details from the public eye after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.