When you register a domain name, you have to give a valid address, email account and phone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anybody can view your information and lots of individuals may not be pleased with that fact. Consequently, a lot of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Today, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is incredibly easy if you have a Linux cloud website hosting package. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you will only have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – in case you want to transfer a given domain to another domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or corporate contact details with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthenticated people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This takes only several mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.