Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain owner will be freely visible. Providing false info during the domain name registration process or changing the real information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you have ordered a shared web hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can secure your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following a couple of simple steps. If you order a registration or a transfer during the account order procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind later, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after signing up. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take no more than a few mouse clicks.