Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the name, address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly accessible. Providing false information during the domain registration procedure or changing the authentic details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t have to use different admin panels. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so upon signup. You will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.