Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly available. Giving false details during the domain name registration procedure or altering the authentic info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a Linux cloud website hosting. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you will just have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code top-level domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it completely – in case you wish to transfer a specific domain to some other domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact details with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthorized individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything associated with your account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.