Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be openly accessible. Supplying false info during the domain registration process or altering the authentic info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t need to log in and out of different admin consoles. In the same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after signing up. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will require only several clicks of the mouse.