Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS check sites. Without protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely available. Supplying fake details during the registration procedure or altering the real info afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact information will show up instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to conceal the contact info associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you want to transfer a domain to another registrar company and you need the real email account associated with the domain to be visible.