According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. What’s more, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that unusual. That’s why domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your details with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you order a cloud web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is amazingly easy – after you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will inform you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated package. In case a particular generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny sign on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection 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 change your mind and choose to conceal your private details from the public eye after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.