When you register a domain name, you are requested to give a valid postal address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anybody can see your information and a lot of individuals may not be okay with this. Consequently, numerous domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not have to use different tools. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation process. Furthermore, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will take only several clicks.