Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly visible. Supplying fake info during the domain registration process or altering the authentic info subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes just a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up buying a service that we can’t provide.