When you register a domain, you are requested to provide a valid address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can check your info and a lot of people may not be pleased with that fact. As a result, many registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud hosting service from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your personal details intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domains. 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 just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your private information even if you haven’t activated the service during the registration process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you want to conceal the contact information for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any time later via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you’d like to transfer a domain name to some other domain registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.