In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Besides, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everyone can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that rare. This is why domain registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will view 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 impossible to conceal your info with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux hosting 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 effort and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domains. Its color will show you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can shield your personal info 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 domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated package. In case a particular generic or country-specific domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a mini logo next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you change your mind and opt to hide your private information from the public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.