According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Moreover, this info is openly visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. This is the reason why domain name registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will view 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 top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your info with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared web hosting service from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your private data even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you want to hide the contact info associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any time later via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered through us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain name. In the very same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you wish to transfer a domain to another registrar company and you need the real email address associated with the domain name to be visible.