Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact info of domain owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be freely accessible. Providing false info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is surprisingly easy in case you have a hosting. You can accomplish this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll only have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a specific domain to some other registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or corporate contact information with just a couple of mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unsolicited people.