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 correct and up to date all the time. At the same time, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in an age when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. That is the reason why registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private info with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is stunningly easy if you’ve got a cloud hosting plan. You can do this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you will only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it completely – in case you want to transfer a particular domain name to another company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact info with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthorized individuals.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by completing a couple of easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you skip this step and you think things over later, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through us after the signup process. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require only several clicks.