Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the name, address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely visible. Supplying false information upon registration or altering the real info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you have a cloud website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to use different Control Panel tools. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. You’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is astonishingly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server plan. If a given generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a tiny symbol next to that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process as well, but since the service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you change your mind and choose to conceal your private information from the public after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.