Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine details 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. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you have a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not need to log in and out of different Control Panels. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the update will take effect immediately.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following several easy steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you skip this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via 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 domain names that you register with our company after signup. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take no more than several mouse clicks.