Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain owners on WHOIS check websites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Giving fake information during the registration process or changing the genuine details later 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 valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be displayed 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 Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a Linux hosting. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – if you’d like to transfer a particular domain to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact info with only a few clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This requires only a few clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.