Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS websites. Without protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Providing false info during the domain registration procedure or altering the authentic details subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. 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 launched by registrars as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different platforms. In the same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in several easy steps. If you order a registration or a transfer during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require only a couple of clicks of the mouse.