Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Providing false information during the domain registration process or altering the genuine details subsequently will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud package 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 personal details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your personal info even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.