Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain owners on WHOIS check sites. Without protection, the name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly accessible. Providing fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the genuine information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal information safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal details even if you haven’t activated the service during the web hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in several simple steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the service is just as easy and will require no more than a few clicks.