Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without protection, the name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly visible. Supplying fake details during the registration process or changing the real info subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the arising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to use different admin consoles. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so upon signup. Plus, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect right away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the signup process, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over later, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after signup. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require no more than a couple of mouse clicks.