Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the personal name, address and email of any domain name owner will be publicly accessible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine info at a later time 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 info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you order a shared hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is incredibly easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you wish to hide the contact information associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered with us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – in case you want to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.