Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS websites. Without protection, the name, home address and email of any domain name owner will be freely available. Providing fake details during the domain registration process or altering the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal info even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to hide the contact info associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any moment later via your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain. In the very same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you want to transfer a domain to some other registrar company and you need the actual email associated with the domain to be visible.