Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain registrant will be openly visible. Giving false details during the domain registration process or altering the real information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – once you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is unbelievably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. In case a specific generic or country-code Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a mini icon on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you will need to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and choose to hide your private details from the public eye after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.