Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS check websites. Without this service, the name, home address and email of any domain owner will be freely accessible. Providing false information during the domain name registration procedure or altering the authentic details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains 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 get a cloud web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – once you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will inform you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.