Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Providing fake info during the domain name registration process or altering the genuine details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company in case you have a shared web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not have to sign in and out of different interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so upon signup. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes only several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up buying a service that we cannot provide.