In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Additionally, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. That is the reason why registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your info with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is unbelievably easy in case you have a shared web hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you’ll only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – if you would like to transfer a particular domain name to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or business contact information with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unsolicited people.