Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the name, address and email of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real information at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name 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 info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is surprisingly easy – after you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a couple of clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.