Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly available. Providing false info during the registration process or altering the real information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the growing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the 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 Website Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is really easy in case you’ve got a Linux website hosting package. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you’ll only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – if you would like to transfer a particular domain to another company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact information with only several clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy if 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 hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated plan. If a particular generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small symbol on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you will need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation process as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you change your mind and choose to conceal your personal info from the public after you have already created the account.