Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely visible. Giving fake details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the rising concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though 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 that you’ve registered with our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you will not have to use different admin consoles. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so upon signup. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you would like to conceal the contact info for your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any time later through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – in case you want to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.