Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be openly visible. Giving false details during the domain registration procedure or changing the authentic details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a cloud website hosting plan from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is remarkably easy – after you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following several easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after signup. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will require only a few clicks.