Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly visible. Providing fake details during the registration procedure or altering the authentic details subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is very easy in case you’ve got a Linux hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your hosting account – you will simply need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – if you would like to transfer a certain domain to a different domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact details with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthorized individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to hide the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any time later via your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered through our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – if you want to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.