According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. At the same time, this info is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everyone can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. That is why domain registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux cloud hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate 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 extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domains. Its color will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks. Thus, you can shield your private details even if you haven’t added the service during the hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.