Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly visible. Supplying fake information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you order a hosting package from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – once you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will show you whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we cannot provide.