Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain owner will be openly visible. Providing fake information during the registration process or changing the genuine info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the rising concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux shared hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal details safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your private info even if you have not activated the service during the hosting account activation procedure. 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

In case you would like to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any time afterwards via our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered with our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – if you wish to transfer a domain to some other domain registrar and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.