According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. In addition, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that uncommon. This is the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your details with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private details intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your private info even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account order procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. If a particular generic or country-code Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a small symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you change your mind and choose to hide your personal details from the public after you have already created the account.