Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain registrant will be freely available. Providing fake information during the domain name registration procedure or altering the authentic details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not have to sign in and out of different admin dashboards. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, 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 whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so upon registration. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a given generic or country-code Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a tiny symbol to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon registration as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you think things over and choose to conceal your personal information from the general public after you’ve already created the account.