Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Supplying fake information upon registration or changing the real details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your private info even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking a few easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you change your mind later, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take just several clicks of the mouse.