Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS check web sites. Without protection, the name, address and email account of any domain registrant will be publicly accessible. Providing fake information during the registration procedure or changing the genuine details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her 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 up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar company’s contact information will show up 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 don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you order a cloud web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will inform you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

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 any effort. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll find 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-code top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we can’t provide.