Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check web sites. Without protection, the name, address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying fake info during the registration process or altering the authentic information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux hosting plan from us and you have 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 info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will let you know if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can secure your private information even if you haven’t added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just several clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.