Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be freely visible. Giving fake info upon registration or changing the genuine details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is extremely easy – after you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following a few easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you omit this step and you think things over at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require only several clicks.