Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, street address and email account of any domain name owner will be openly available. Providing fake details during the registration procedure or changing the genuine info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is activated, the registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal information secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks. In this way, you can shield your private data even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.