Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain registrant will be openly available. Giving fake info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the growing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is exceptionally easy if you have a shared hosting. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you’ll simply need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, 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 – if you wish to transfer a particular domain name to some other domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact info with just several clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.