Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact details of domain owners on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the personal name, home address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely accessible. Supplying false info during the domain name registration process or changing the real information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the growing concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact info will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company in case you have a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to go through different Control Panel tools. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated package. If a particular generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a mini icon on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you think things over and opt to hide your private details from the public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.