Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain registrant will be freely available. Providing fake information during the domain name registration process or altering the real information later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you will not have to use different admin consoles. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Moreover, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.