When you register a domain name, you have to provide an authentic street address, email and telephone number as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can check your info and some individuals may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, lots of companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud web hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can secure your private data even if you haven’t activated the service during the web 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 Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is incredibly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a particular generic or country-specific top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a tiny button on its right. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and decide to hide your private details from the public eye after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.