Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying false details upon registration or changing the authentic details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the arising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain name 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 Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private details secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domain names. Its color will inform you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your personal info even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in a couple of simple steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the account order procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after signing up. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take just a couple of clicks.