In accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Furthermore, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. This is why domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your personal info with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you order a shared hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – after you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is very easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through 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’ll see a small sign next to that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and decide to hide your personal information from the general public after you have already created the account.