Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email of any domain name owner will be publicly accessible. Supplying fake details during the domain registration procedure or changing the genuine information afterwards 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 approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this option. 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 extremely easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.