Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly available. Giving false info during the registration process or altering the real info later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over later, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or removing the service is just as easy and will require no more than several clicks of the mouse.