When you register a domain, you need to supply an authentic address, email and telephone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS sites as well, so anyone can check your details and certain people may not be comfortable with this. Consequently, many domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is extremely easy if you’ve got a Linux cloud hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you’d like to transfer a given domain to another registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact info with only several clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated server package. In case a given generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a mini button to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains later in case you change your mind and opt to hide your personal info from the general public after you have already created the account.