Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely available. Providing fake details during the domain registration process or changing the authentic information at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is active, the registrar company’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting service from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your private information even if you haven’t added the service during the web hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up buying a service that we can’t provide.