Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving false details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the arising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is very easy if you have a hosting plan. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you’ll only have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – if you wish to transfer a particular domain name to some other registrar company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact information with just a couple of clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unsolicited individuals.