In accordance with the policy approved 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. Plus, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that unusual. This is why domain registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal details with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through us. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.