In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. What’s more, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. Because of this, domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your personal details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is stunningly easy in case you have a shared hosting. You can do this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you’ll simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – in case you wish to transfer a particular domain name to a different registrar company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact info with just a few clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthenticated individuals.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything related to your account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.