Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Giving false information upon registration or changing the genuine info later will just 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), demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the growing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar company’s contact details will be displayed instead of the domain name 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 Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is incredibly easy if you have a Linux hosting. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you will just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – in case you would 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 info with only several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthorized people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.