Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying fake information during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar company’s contact info will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company if you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different user interfaces. In the same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that 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 activate the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires only several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.