Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the name, address and email of any domain name owner will be openly visible. Giving fake information during the registration procedure or changing the authentic details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require 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 increasing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact information will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a cloud website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – once you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will show you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.