Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly accessible. Providing fake information during the registration process or changing the authentic details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be displayed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is extremely easy – after you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is really easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated package. If a given generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a tiny icon on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you think things over and opt to hide your personal details from the public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.