In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Moreover, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that atypical. For this reason, registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your personal info with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you order a cloud web hosting package from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register/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 later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is unbelievably easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will show you whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is very easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a specific generic or country-code Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a mini button on its right. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you think things over and choose to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you have already ordered the account.