In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Plus, this info is freely visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that atypical. For this reason, registrar companies have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your information with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux shared web hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private information secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your personal data even if you haven’t activated the service during the hosting account activation procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy if you have 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 Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a particular generic or country-specific domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small button next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you think things over and decide to hide your private information from the public eye after you have already ordered the account.