Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely visible. Providing fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the authentic details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. 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

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is remarkably easy if you have a Linux shared website hosting package. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you will only 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 gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it completely – in case you wish to transfer a given domain name to another registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or corporate contact details with just several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unsolicited people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to conceal the contact information for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any time later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered through us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or deactivate it – if you’d like to transfer a domain name to another registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.