Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be openly available. Providing false details during the registration procedure or changing the real information subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your private details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a few clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything related to your account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.