Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be openly accessible. Providing fake information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the rising concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact details will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is unbelievably easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will inform you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.