In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that unusual. That is why domain registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your personal information with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with our company is remarkably easy if you’ve got a Linux cloud service. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you’ll just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a certain domain to another company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact info with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unsolicited people.
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 under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just a few 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 see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.