Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be freely available. Giving fake details upon registration or changing the genuine details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. 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 enabled, the registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t need to use different systems. In the very same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the signup process. You’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes just several mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.