ID Protection

Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS websites. Without protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly accessible. Giving false info upon registration or changing the genuine information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared website hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not have to use different admin consoles. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the registration procedure. Furthermore, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it – in case you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar and you need the real email account associated with the domain name to be visible.