Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain owners on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain owner will be openly accessible. Supplying false info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the authentic details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux hosting package from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domains. Its colour will show you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your personal data even if you haven’t added the 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 domain names just as easily.