According to the policy adopted 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. Furthermore, this information is openly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud is not that infrequent. This is why registrar companies have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your details with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you get a cloud hosting plan from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is amazingly easy – once you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to conceal the contact details associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any time afterwards through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered through our company will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain. In the same way, you can also renew the service or shut it off – in case you wish to transfer a domain to another company and you need the real email account associated with the domain to be visible.