Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the name, address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Supplying false information during the registration procedure or altering the genuine information later 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 ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you have a shared website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to log in and out of different admin panels. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.