When you register a domain, you are requested to supply a valid address, email account and phone as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anybody can view your info and a lot of people may not be OK with that fact. Consequently, plenty of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux website hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks. Thus, you can protect your private data even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup procedure. You’ll 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

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If 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 server package. In case a given generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a small button to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll 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 name during the signup procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names later if you think things over and opt to conceal your private info from the public after you’ve already ordered the account.