Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Providing fake info during the domain registration process or changing the authentic info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact info will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different platforms. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the change will take effect right away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires just several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.