Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain owner will be openly accessible. Giving false details during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a web hosting plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will tell you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can safeguard your personal information even if you haven’t added the service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.