Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly available. Giving fake details during the domain registration process or changing the genuine info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you would like to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any time later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered through us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each domain. In the same way, you can also renew the service or disable it – if you would like to transfer a domain to some other registrar company and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.