When you register a domain, you are asked to provide a valid street address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can see your info and certain people may not be satisfied with this. As a result, plenty of companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. As of now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared website hosting service from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private data intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will show you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private details even if you haven’t added the service during the registration procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires only a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.