Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly available. Supplying fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the real info at a later time 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 info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you will not have to switch between different tools. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so upon registration. Additionally, you’ll 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 instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a couple of easy steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the account order procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you skip this step and you think things over later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server 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 procedure. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require only a couple of mouse clicks.