Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without protection, the personal name, home address and email of any domain name owner will be freely available. Supplying fake details upon registration or altering the authentic information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux shared hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private information intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domain names. Its color will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal data even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.