Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly visible. Providing false info during the registration procedure or altering the real information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the arising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact details will be listed 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 ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything related to your account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.