Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Providing fake information during the registration procedure or altering the real details afterwards 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 adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux shared website hosting package from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal information intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domains. Its colour will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the service during the web hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny sign next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later time in case you change your mind and choose to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you have already ordered the account.