Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS check sites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving false info during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic info later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a cloud website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in a couple of easy steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you skip this step and you change your mind later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as easy and will take no more than a couple of mouse clicks.