Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email of any domain owner will be freely accessible. Giving false information during the domain name registration process or altering the authentic information later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through us. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is exceptionally easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-specific top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny icon to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names later if you change your mind and opt to hide your personal details from the public after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.