Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS check web sites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be freely available. Providing false info during the domain name registration process or changing the authentic details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a shared website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to sign in and out of different user interfaces. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the signup process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is really easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a particular generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a small sign to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon signup as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you think things over and opt to hide your personal information from the general public after you have already created the account.