Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without this service, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be publicly available. Providing false info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the authentic details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux website hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your private info even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is amazingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. If a specific generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny button to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains later if you think things over and decide to conceal your private details from the public eye after you have already created the account.