According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Besides, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that uncommon. For this reason, domain name registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your personal info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud web hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal info safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. In this way, you can shield your personal info even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service upon signup. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to conceal the contact info for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a few mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered through us will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – in case you want to transfer a domain to another domain registrar and you need the real email account associated with the domain to be visible.