When you register a domain name, you are obliged to supply a valid home address, email and phone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anybody can see your info and certain people may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, a lot of registrar 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 domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will tell you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can secure your private data even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. 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
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is unbelievably easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-specific domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a small symbol to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names later in case you change your mind and decide to hide your private info from the general public after you’ve already created the account.