Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without protection, the name, address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly available. Giving false information during the domain registration process or changing the genuine info later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is really easy if you’ve got a Linux cloud hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you will only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you wish to transfer a specific domain name to another registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact details with only several clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to conceal the contact details associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered with us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each domain name. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – if you’d like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar company and you need the actual email associated with the domain to be visible.