Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be freely visible. Supplying fake details during the domain name registration process or changing the real information afterwards 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 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact details will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud hosting from our company and you’ve 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 information safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your private details even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service upon signup. 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 Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.