Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain registrant will be publicly available. Giving fake info upon registration or altering the genuine details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as a response to the growing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you get a cloud web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – after you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.