When you register a domain, you are requested to provide a genuine postal address, email account and telephone as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can view your information and a lot of individuals may not be pleased with this. As a result, many domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud service from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will tell you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can secure your private info even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account activation process. 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

In case you would like to hide the contact details for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each domain. In the very same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – in case you wish to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.