Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be openly visible. Providing fake info during the domain name registration procedure or changing the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will be listed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you get a cloud hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – after you log in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in several simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later time, 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 entire 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 us after signup. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will take only a few clicks of the mouse.