In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. At the same time, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that atypical. That’s why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your private details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting service from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private data intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will let you know if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you would like to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any moment later through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each domain. In the same way, you can also renew the service or deactivate it – if you would like to transfer a domain name to some other domain registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.