Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS check websites. Without this service, the name, address and email of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Giving fake info during the domain name registration process or changing the authentic info subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar company’s contact information will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not need to log in and out of different tools. In the very 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 service. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the account activation process. You’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes only a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we can’t provide.