Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly available. Giving false info during the domain name registration process or altering the real information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact details will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. 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

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is amazingly easy if you have a Linux cloud hosting package. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – if you’d like to transfer a given domain to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact info with just a couple of mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated plan. If a particular generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a mini symbol on its right. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you change your mind and choose to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you’ve already created the account.