According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Additionally, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud is not that unusual. Because of this, registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your personal information with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have ordered a cloud website hosting plan 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 easily and to keep your private details intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal data even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection 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 domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires only a few mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.