Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS check sites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Providing false information during the registration procedure or altering the authentic info afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – after you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a few easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the signup process, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you skip this step and you change your mind later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after the signup process. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will require only a couple of clicks.