Whois Privacy Protection, at times also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the personal name, home address and email of any domain name owner will be publicly visible. Providing fake details during the domain registration process or altering the genuine details 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, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be displayed instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is surprisingly easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.