Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be publicly visible. Providing fake information during the registration process or altering the authentic info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is active, the registrar company’s contact info will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud website hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your private details secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domains. Its colour will let you know whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks. In this way, you can secure your personal information even if you haven’t activated the service during the signup process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.