Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without this service, the name, address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly available. Giving false info during the domain registration procedure or changing the real information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a website hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal information intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will show you whether a domain 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 safeguard your private details even if you haven’t added the service during the hosting account activation procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.