According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. At the same time, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. That’s why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your private info with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with our company is astonishingly easy if you have a Linux shared hosting. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account – you’ll only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it completely – in case you’d like to transfer a particular domain name to another company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact information with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthenticated people.
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 a couple of easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the 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 only several clicks of the mouse.