When you register a domain name, you have to give a valid address, email account and telephone as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS websites too, so anybody can view your details and many individuals may not be satisfied with this. Consequently, a lot of companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domains. Its color will show you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. Thus, you can protect your private details even if you haven’t added the service during the hosting account activation procedure. You will 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

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is very easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a small symbol next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains later if you change your mind and opt to conceal your personal info from the public after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.