Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying fake info during the registration process or changing the authentic info subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting plan from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – once you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through us. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just several mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can enable, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.