Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly accessible. Giving fake info during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain 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 information must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the increasing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. 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 Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a cloud website hosting package 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 private data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domains. Its colour will inform you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the service during the registration 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 name is exceptionally easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a mini icon on its right. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order 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 opportunity to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and choose to conceal your private information from the general public after you have already ordered the account.