Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be freely accessible. Providing fake info during the domain registration procedure or changing the real details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is stunningly easy – once you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to conceal the contact information for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a couple of mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered through our company will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to a different registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.