Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be openly available. Supplying false details during the registration process or changing the genuine details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a few easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will take only a few mouse clicks.