Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain owners on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, address and email account of any domain owner will be freely available. Supplying fake info during the domain registration process or changing the authentic information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud web hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private details intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will inform you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks. Thus, you can shield your personal data even if you have not added the service upon registration. 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 Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.