Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain owners on WHOIS check web sites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly accessible. Giving fake details during the domain registration procedure or changing the real details afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will tell you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal details even if you have not added the service during the hosting account order process. 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

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated package. In case a particular generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a small logo to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you change your mind and decide to hide your private details from the public after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.