Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal info safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal data even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.