When you register a domain name, you are obliged to provide a genuine street address, email and phone number in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anybody can see your information and a lot of individuals may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, a lot of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view 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 globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux cloud package from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you 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 secure your private information even if you have not enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate 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 us and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This takes just several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your domain names and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.