Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without this service, the name, home address and email account of any domain owner will be openly visible. Supplying fake details during the registration process or changing the genuine information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted 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 introduced by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones 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’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not have to use different admin consoles. In the same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so during the registration process. Besides, you will 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 immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.