Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the name, address and email of any domain name owner will be openly available. Supplying fake info during the domain registration process or altering the real details at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to conceal the contact information for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any moment later via your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each domain name. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it – in case you wish to transfer a domain to another company and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.