Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be freely available. Giving fake info during the domain registration procedure or altering the real information later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar company’s contact details will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud website hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal data even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. If a particular generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a tiny symbol to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private details from the public eye after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.