According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Furthermore, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that uncommon. For this reason, domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your personal details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux cloud web hosting plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private information safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domain names. Its color will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can safeguard your private data even if you haven’t activated the service during the web hosting account activation procedure. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This takes just a few clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.