When you register a domain, you are required to supply a genuine address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS web sites too, so anybody can see your info and lots of individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, a lot of registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you get a website hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – once you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server plan. If a given generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a mini icon to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order process too, but since the service is optional, we will give you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you think things over and opt to conceal your private information from the public after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.