Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain name owner will be publicly visible. Providing fake information during the registration process or changing the real info afterwards 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 information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain registrars as a response to the arising concerns for potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a cloud website hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – after you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.