According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Additionally, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that rare. That’s the reason why domain registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your private info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you won’t need to log in and out of different admin dashboards. In the very same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so during the account activation process. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the update will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is stunningly easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated plan. If a given generic or country-specific domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a mini symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and opt to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.