In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that atypical. That’s why domain registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your information with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you order a cloud hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will let you know whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following a couple of easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require no more than a couple of mouse clicks.