Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be freely available. Supplying fake info during the domain registration procedure or changing the authentic info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to use different admin interfaces. In the very same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes only a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything related to your account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.