Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly available. Providing fake info upon registration or altering the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name 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 correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you have a shared website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to log in and out of different platforms. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so during the signup process. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide 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 by taking a couple of easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account order procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after the signup process. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require just a few clicks of the mouse.