Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Supplying false information during the registration procedure or changing the real details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you have ordered a hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can shield your private info even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service upon signup. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.