Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain registrant will be publicly available. Providing fake information during the registration procedure or altering the authentic details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux website hosting package from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal data even if you haven’t added the service during the web hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.