Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be publicly accessible. Supplying fake details during the domain registration process or altering the authentic info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you have a web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t need to switch between different interfaces. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. You will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a few clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up buying a service that we can’t provide.