Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be freely available. Supplying fake info during the domain registration procedure or altering the real info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown 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 do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you get a cloud web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a specific generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a mini symbol on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you change your mind and decide to hide your personal info from the public eye after you have already created the account.