Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Giving fake information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is exceptionally easy in case you’ve got a website hosting. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your hosting account – you will simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it completely – if you wish to transfer a specific domain to another domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact info with only several clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to conceal the contact info associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any moment afterwards via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with several mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you wish to transfer a domain to another domain registrar and you need the real email address associated with the domain name to be visible.