In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Plus, this information is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that infrequent. That’s why registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your details with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux cloud web hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal information intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private details even if you have not enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation procedure. You’ll 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 decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking several easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation process, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind later, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through us after signup. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will require just several clicks.