According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Additionally, this info is openly visible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that unusual. That is the reason why domain name registrars have come up with 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 active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private information with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is surprisingly easy if you have a cloud hosting. You can accomplish this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you’ll simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each Top-Level Domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it completely – in case you’d like to transfer a certain domain to a different company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact info with only several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unsolicited persons.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires only a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.