Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be freely available. Providing fake details upon registration or altering the genuine info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you get a shared website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – once you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a couple of easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the signup process, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire 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 us after signup. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take no more than several mouse clicks.