Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be publicly available. Providing false details during the registration procedure or changing the genuine details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud website hosting service 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 easily and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domain names. Its color will tell you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. Thus, you can shield your personal details even if you haven’t added the service during the registration process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated package. In case a particular generic or country-specific domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small sign next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon signup as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private info from the general public after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.