According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Besides, this info is openly available on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that atypical. That is why domain name registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private details with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company if you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t have to go through different Control Panel tools. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the registration process. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.