Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly visible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration process or altering the authentic information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you have ordered a shared website hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your private details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domain names. Its color will show you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal information even if you have not added the service during the signup process. 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 us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a few simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the signup process, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server 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 disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take just a couple of clicks.