Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely visible. Providing fake info during the domain registration procedure or altering the authentic info subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’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 Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is extremely easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.