Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without protection, the name, address and email account of any domain name registrant will be openly visible. Supplying fake details upon registration or altering the authentic info later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is very easy in case you have a shared website hosting. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll only need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each Top-Level Domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – if you would like to transfer a specific domain name to some other domain registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact details with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthorized individuals.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only a couple of clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.