Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the name, street address and email of any domain registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying false details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the rising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. 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 order a web hosting package from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will show you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.