When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide an authentic home address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anybody can view your info and lots of people may not be satisfied with that fact. Consequently, a lot of registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to use different tools. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the signup process. Besides, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the change will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is amazingly easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated package. If a given generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a mini sign next to that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names later in case you change your mind and choose to hide your personal details from the general public after you have already ordered the account.