Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly visible. Providing false info during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact details will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a web hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you will not need to use different platforms. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation process. Plus, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is really easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a tiny button next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation procedure as well, but since the 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 choose to conceal your personal details from the public eye after you have already created the account.