Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Supplying fake information during the registration process or altering the genuine details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved 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 domain registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will show you whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to hide the contact info associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any time later through our Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered through us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – in case you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.