Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be freely accessible. Giving false details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the genuine info at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will show up instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got 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 will not have to switch between different Control Panels. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect immediately.