Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS websites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely visible. Giving false info during the registration procedure or altering the real information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is extremely easy in case you have a Linux cloud web hosting service. You can do this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your hosting account – you will simply need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you wish to transfer a given domain to another registrar company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact information with only a few clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes only several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.