Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact info of domain owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be freely visible. Providing fake info during the registration procedure or altering the genuine details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud web hosting service from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private information safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can safeguard your personal details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.