Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be freely visible. Providing fake information during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine details subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is active, the domain registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is astonishingly easy – after you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking a few simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you skip this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take no more than a few clicks.