Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly available. Giving fake details during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud web hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will inform you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your private information even if you have not enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.