In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. What’s more, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. That’s the reason why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is 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 top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your details with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with our company is unbelievably easy if you’ve got a Linux shared web hosting package. You can accomplish this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, 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’d like to transfer a certain domain name to some other domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact details with just several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.