When you register a domain name, you need to supply a genuine street address, email account and phone number 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 domain registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can see your info and a lot of people may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, numerous registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you’ve ordered a hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private information safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domains. Its colour will let you know if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your personal info even if you haven’t added the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You’ll 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 Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is exceptionally easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated package. If a particular generic or country-specific domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a small sign to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order process as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you think things over and decide to conceal your personal info from the general public after you have already ordered the account.