Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be publicly accessible. Providing false details during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine details subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact information will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is astonishingly easy – after you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is extremely easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-specific top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a tiny icon to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you change your mind and choose to conceal your private information from the public eye after you have already created the account.