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Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Supplying false information during the domain registration procedure or changing the genuine information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you will not need to use different admin interfaces. In the same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so upon registration. Moreover, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.