When you register a domain, you are asked to supply a genuine address, email and phone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS web sites too, so anyone can see your information and a lot of individuals may not be comfortable with this. As a consequence, a lot of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, 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. Now, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with 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 administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different Control Panels. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is exceptionally easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated package. If a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small sign to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you think things over and choose to conceal your private details from the public after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.