Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact details of domain owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be freely visible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration procedure or altering the authentic details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is amazingly easy if you’ve got a Linux shared hosting service. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you’ll just need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it completely – in case you wish to transfer a particular domain name to another registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact details with just several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unsolicited people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to conceal the contact info associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any time afterwards via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered through us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you wish to transfer a domain to a different company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.