Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying false details during the domain name registration process or altering the real info subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t have to switch between different Control Panel tools. In the very same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the signup procedure. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a couple of simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain name during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after signup. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will take only a few clicks of the mouse.