Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the name, address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Supplying fake information during the domain registration procedure or altering the authentic details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux hosting package from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your private details even if you haven’t added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a tiny sign to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration process too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you change your mind and choose to hide your personal information from the general public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.