Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely available. Providing fake info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the real details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info 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 ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you have ordered a web hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can secure your private details even if you haven’t added the service during the hosting account order procedure. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.