Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without protection, the personal name, home address and email of any domain owner will be openly available. Giving fake info during the domain registration procedure or altering the authentic details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is active, the domain registrar’s contact info will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal data intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will let you know whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can secure your personal information even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon signup. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking a few easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you think things over afterwards, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require just several mouse clicks.