Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying fake information during the registration process or altering the authentic information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux website hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks. In this way, you can secure your private details even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon signup. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is remarkably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated plan. If a given generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a mini symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you think things over and decide to hide your private info from the general public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.