Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be freely available. Providing fake details during the domain registration procedure or altering the real details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud web hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private information safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your private data even if you have not activated the service during the hosting account activation process. You will 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 Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a few simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take just several clicks.