Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email account of any domain owner will be freely available. Giving false information during the domain name registration process or altering the authentic information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will be listed 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 ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is exceptionally easy if you’ve got a shared website hosting service. You can do this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you will only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it completely – in case you’d like to transfer a certain domain to another domain registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact info with only a couple of clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthorized people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you wish to hide the contact information associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment afterwards via our Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each domain. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the service or shut it off – if you want to transfer a domain name to a different domain registrar and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.