Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS check web sites. Without this service, the name, home address and email account of any domain name registrant will be publicly available. Providing false details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company in case you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not need to go through different Control Panel tools. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. You will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the update will take effect instantly.