Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain registrant will be openly visible. Providing fake information during the registration procedure or altering the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will show up 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 ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a cloud website hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different Control Panels. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so upon signup. Furthermore, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires just a few clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.