Whois Privacy Protection
Find out what Whois Privacy Protection is and how it can benefit secure your personal information.
Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be openly accessible. Supplying fake information during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine information at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is stunningly easy if you’ve got a Linux shared package. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you’ll just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you want to transfer a specific domain to another company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact details with just a couple of mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthenticated individuals.