Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact info of domain owners on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain registrant will be freely accessible. Providing fake details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real information subsequently will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company in case you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different Control Panels. In the very 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 if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. You’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.