Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain registrant will be freely visible. Giving false details during the registration procedure or altering the authentic details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you’ve ordered a shared 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 difficulty and to keep your personal details secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal information even if you haven’t added the service upon signup. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.