Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly available. Supplying fake information during the domain registration procedure or changing the real info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is exceptionally easy in case you’ve got a shared plan. You can accomplish this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the 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 particular domain to another domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact info with just several clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unsolicited people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is surprisingly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. If a given generic or country-specific domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a mini symbol on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you think things over and choose to conceal your private info from the public after you have already created the account.