Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving fake info during the domain name registration process or altering the real information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you will not need to use different user interfaces. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes only a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.