Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, address and email of any domain registrant will be freely accessible. Supplying false information during the registration process or altering the genuine information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to go through different admin consoles. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. Furthermore, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking a couple of easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain name during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require only several clicks.