Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain owners on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain registrant will be freely visible. Supplying fake information during the domain registration process or changing the real details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’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 some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is incredibly easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.