Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Giving false info during the domain registration process or changing the genuine details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is unbelievably easy if you have a website hosting service. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you will just need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each generic or country-code top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – if you’d like to transfer a certain domain to some other domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact information with only a few clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes only a few clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.