Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact info of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying false details during the domain registration process or altering the authentic info subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the arising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you have ordered a hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private information intact. 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” icon to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will inform you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal info even if you haven’t added the service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to hide the contact information associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain name. In the same manner, you can also renew the service or remove it – if you would like to transfer a domain name to some other company and you need the real email account associated with the domain to be visible.