Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Supplying fake information upon registration or changing the authentic details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the rising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will let you know whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal data even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is exceptionally easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated package. In case a specific generic or country-code top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a mini sign on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you think things over and choose to conceal your private details from the public eye after you have already created the account.