In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Besides, this info is freely visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that rare. This is the reason why registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal details with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting package from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your private data secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will tell you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can secure your private details even if you have not activated the service during the registration 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 Hosting
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following several easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after signing up. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take no more than several clicks of the mouse.