Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup web sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be freely visible. Providing fake information during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine information at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud web hosting plan 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 without effort and to keep your private information secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just several mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your personal data even if you haven’t added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.