Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly accessible. Providing false details during the domain name registration procedure or altering the real info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private information intact. 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” sign next to each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can shield your private info even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.