When you register a domain name, you are asked to provide a valid postal address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS web sites too, so anybody can view your info and many people may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, plenty of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view 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 very same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is incredibly easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a few easy steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the signup process, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you omit this step and you think things over at a later time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after signup. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require no more than a couple of mouse clicks.