Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Providing fake information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real info later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar company’s contact information will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private info even if you haven’t activated the service during the web hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated plan. If a given generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a small symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you change your mind and choose to hide your personal information from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.