Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be freely visible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact info will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to switch between different user interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the registration process. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is remarkably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a specific generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small sign on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order process too, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and opt to hide your private information from the general public after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.