According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. What’s more, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that rare. That is why domain name registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is extremely easy in case you have a Linux cloud website hosting. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll just have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – if you want to transfer a specific domain to some other domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact details with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is incredibly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a specific generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a tiny logo to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and opt to hide your personal details from the public eye after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.