Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be freely available. Providing false information during the registration process or altering the real info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is incredibly easy if you have a Linux shared hosting. You can accomplish this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll simply need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each domain name that supports the Whois Privacy 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 given domain to a different registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact info with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to hide the contact details for your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any time later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain name. In the very same way, you can also renew the service or disable it – if you want to transfer a domain name to some other registrar company and you need the actual email associated with the domain to be visible.