Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be publicly available. Providing false information during the domain registration procedure or changing the authentic information at a later time 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 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as a response to the growing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you will not have to log in and out of different admin panels. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so upon signup. Plus, you’ll 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 right away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires just several clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.