Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be publicly available. Providing false information during the domain registration procedure or changing the genuine details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you order a shared hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, 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 us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a few easy steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require only a couple of clicks.