According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. At the same time, this info is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in times when identity theft isn’t that rare. This is the reason why domain registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your private details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux website hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can secure your personal details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web 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 Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through us, 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-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny button next to that domain. To enable the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you change your mind and opt to hide your private information from the public eye after you have already ordered the account.