Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Supplying false information during the registration process or altering the real 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 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact information will show up instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not have to log in and out of different Control Panel tools. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the change will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires just several mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything connected with your account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.