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 valid and up to date all the time. In addition, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in times when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. For this reason, domain name registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private info with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
If you order a cloud website hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will inform you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated plan. If a specific generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a small icon to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon registration too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you think things over and opt to hide your personal info from the general public after you’ve already created the account.