Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be openly accessible. Giving false information during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine info subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to log in and out of different Control Panels. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so upon signup. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If 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 without effort. This requires just a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, 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 domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.