Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be openly visible. Giving fake information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic info later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud web hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domain names. Its color will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can secure your personal information even if you have not added the service upon signup. 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

In case you would like to hide the contact information for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any time later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the same manner, you can also renew the service or disable it – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to some other company and you need the actual email account associated with the domain to be visible.