In accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. At the same time, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that rare. That’s the reason why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud website hosting service from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private information intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domain names. Its color will let you know if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.