When you register a domain name, you are obliged to supply an authentic home address, email and phone as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anybody can view your info and lots of individuals may not be OK with that fact. As a result, many companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud plan from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will show you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can safeguard your private information even if you have not activated the service during the registration process. 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 Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is surprisingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated package. If a specific generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you will need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you think things over and decide to hide your private details from the public eye after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.