Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly visible. Giving false details during the registration process or changing the real info 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 ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a website hosting plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private information safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated package. If a specific generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small icon on its right. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon signup too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private info from the general public after you’ve already created the account.