Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving false details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you get a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a few easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as easy and will require no more than a few clicks.