Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly accessible. Supplying fake details during the domain registration procedure or altering the real details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains 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 order a shared website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is stunningly easy – after you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain. In the exact same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – if you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.