Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information 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. Giving fake info during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact information will show up 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 extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you’ve ordered a hosting plan from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal details intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your private data even if you haven’t activated the service during the registration process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.