In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Plus, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. This is the reason why domain registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your personal information with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is surprisingly easy in case you have a Linux hosting package. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you will just have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – if you want to transfer a specific domain to some other domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact information with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthorized people.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to conceal the contact info associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each domain. In the exact same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain to another registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.