Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Supplying fake info during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine info afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have ordered a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domains. Its color will show you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private info even if you haven’t added the service during the hosting account activation process. You will 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 Servers
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.