Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain owners on WHOIS sites. Without protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly visible. Giving false info upon registration or changing the authentic info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – after you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will tell you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case 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 any difficulty. This takes only a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.