Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain name owner will be publicly accessible. Providing fake info during the registration process or altering the genuine details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the rising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’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 some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud web hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private information secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can secure your personal info even if you haven’t added the service during the signup procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

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 activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.