Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain owner will be openly available. Providing fake details during the registration process or changing the genuine details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the 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 valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is unbelievably easy in case you’ve got a hosting plan. You can accomplish this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you will just have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each generic or country-code top-level domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – if you wish to transfer a specific domain to some other domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact info with just several clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just several clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we cannot provide.