Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying false information during the registration process or changing the authentic information subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – after you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is surprisingly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a tiny logo next to that domain. To activate the service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains later if you change your mind and decide to hide your personal information from the public eye after you have already created the account.