Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain owners on WHOIS check websites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain registrant will be openly available. Providing false details during the domain registration process or changing the real details subsequently 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 registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux shared web hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account activation procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is surprisingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated package. If a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a tiny icon next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your private information from the public after you have already ordered the account.