When you register a domain, you are requested to provide a genuine street address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anybody can view your information and some people may not be pleased with this. As a result, plenty of domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux shared hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private information intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domain names. Its color will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal information even if you haven’t added the service during the web hosting account order procedure. You will 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 extremely easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a particular generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a small symbol on its right. To enable the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order process too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you change your mind and decide to hide your personal details from the general public after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.