When you register a domain name, you are obliged to provide a valid home address, email and telephone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anybody can check your details and many people may not be OK with this. Consequently, many domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see 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 names refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal details even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation 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

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is amazingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a mini logo next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names later if you change your mind and opt to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you have already created the account.