When you register a domain, you have to provide an authentic postal address, email and telephone number as per the policies 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 public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anybody can view your details and a lot of people may not be pleased with that fact. Consequently, a lot of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to use different admin dashboards. In the same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the signup 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 instantly.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as 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 each semi-dedicated package. In case a given generic or country-specific top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a small button to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup process as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you think things over and decide to conceal your private details from the public after you have already ordered the account.