When you register a domain name, you are asked to give an authentic street address, email and phone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anyone can view your info and a lot of individuals may not be OK with that fact. As a result, many domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t need to use different user interfaces. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the registration process. You’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated package. In case a specific generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a tiny symbol on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your private info from the general public after you have already ordered the account.