Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Giving false information during the registration procedure or changing the genuine details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal info even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the 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
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a couple of easy steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. If you skip this step and you change your mind later, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the service is just as easy and will take only a few clicks of the mouse.