According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Besides, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. This is why domain registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your personal details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is incredibly easy if you have a Linux cloud web hosting service. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you will only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – in case you would like to transfer a particular domain name to some other domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact information with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a given generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a tiny icon on its right. To activate the service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration process as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your private info from the public after you’ve already ordered the account.