Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact details of domain owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly available. Giving false details during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a shared hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal information safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will inform you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal info even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration procedure. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a few easy steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the account order process, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you omit this step and you think things over later, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as easy and will require only a couple of clicks.