When you register a domain, you are required to give an authentic home address, email account and phone number as per the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anybody can check your info and a lot of individuals may not be pleased with this. Consequently, a lot of companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t 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’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private details secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks. Thus, you can protect your personal data even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is surprisingly easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated plan. If a particular generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny symbol on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you will need to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private details from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the account.