Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the name, postal address and email account of any domain owner will be openly visible. Providing fake info during the domain registration process or changing the authentic details afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud web hosting plan from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domain names. Its color will show 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 few clicks. Thus, you can shield your private data even if you haven’t enabled the service during the registration process. You will 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’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires just a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.