According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Additionally, this information is freely visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that rare. Because of this, registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud hosting plan from us 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 without any effort and to keep your private info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal info even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires just a couple of clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.