According to 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 up to date all the time. Furthermore, this information is openly visible on WHOIS sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that uncommon. This is why registrar companies have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your private info with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux cloud web hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal details secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal details even if you have not enabled the service during the registration process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you wish to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any moment later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a few mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company will be displayed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain. In the very same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it – if you would like to transfer a domain to some other company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain name to be visible.