Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact details of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying fake information during the domain registration process or altering the genuine details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a Linux shared hosting package. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you will simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it completely – in case you want to transfer a particular domain to another domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact information with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment afterwards via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the service or remove it – if you wish to transfer a domain to another company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.