Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without this service, the name, address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Providing false information upon registration or changing the real information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the rising concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you have ordered a web hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal details safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. In this way, you can protect your private information even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.