Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without such protection, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be freely available. Giving fake information upon registration or altering the genuine information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the arising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not need to use different platforms. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’d like to hide the contact info for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any time afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you wish to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.