Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Providing fake info during the registration procedure or changing the genuine details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you get a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – after you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is remarkably easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a mini sign next to that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order procedure too, but since the service is optional, we will give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names later if you think things over and choose to hide your private details from the general public after you have already created the account.