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Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain name registrant will be openly available. Supplying false information during the registration process or changing the authentic details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact details will be displayed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a shared web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you will not have to switch between different admin panels. In the exact same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the signup process. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domain names and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can activate, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.