Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly visible. Giving false information during the registration process or altering the real info at a later time will simply 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 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you order a cloud web hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – after you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a tiny logo to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure 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 point in time in case you change your mind and choose to hide your personal info from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the account.