Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly available. Providing fake information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the rising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to go through different interfaces. In the same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect instantly.