When you register a domain, you are requested to supply a valid street address, email and telephone as per the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can see your details and a lot of people may not be pleased with that fact. Consequently, a lot of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux web hosting from our company 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 effortlessly and to keep your private info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your private information even if you haven’t added the service during the hosting account order procedure. You’ll 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 is stunningly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through our company, 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 particular generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a mini button on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order procedure as well, 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 public eye after you have already ordered the account.