Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without this service, the personal name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be openly accessible. Supplying false information during the domain name registration procedure or altering the real information later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not have to use different admin interfaces. In the exact same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking several simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through us after the signup procedure. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require no more than several clicks of the mouse.