Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the personal name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be openly available. Providing fake details during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. 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

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin consoles. In the same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is really easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated package. In case a given generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small logo to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your personal information from the general public after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.