Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email of any domain owner will be freely visible. Providing fake details during the domain name registration procedure or altering the real information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux web hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains 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 TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private details even if you have not enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you wish to conceal the contact info for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any moment later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the service or remove it – in case you wish to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.