Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain owners on WHOIS check websites. Without this service, the name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly visible. Supplying false details during the domain registration procedure or altering the real info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details 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 potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you get a hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – once you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a few simple steps. If you order a registration or a transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require no more than a couple of mouse clicks.