Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS check web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain registrant will be freely available. Giving fake information during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine info afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. 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 at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a Linux shared web hosting package. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you will just need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it completely – in case you’d like to transfer a specific domain to some other domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact info with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This takes only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.