Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain owner will be openly accessible. Providing fake details during the registration process or changing the genuine information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar company’s contact information will be shown instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you get a shared website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is stunningly easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following several easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take only a few mouse clicks.