Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely visible. Supplying fake details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real info subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is stunningly easy in case you have a Linux shared website hosting. You can do this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account – you will simply need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – in case you’d like to transfer a specific domain name to some other domain registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact details with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case 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 without difficulty. This requires just several mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.