Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely available. Supplying fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones 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 enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – once you log in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will tell you whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is remarkably easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server package. If a particular generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a mini sign next to that domain. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order process as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you think things over and opt to hide your private information from the public after you have already created the account.