When you register a domain, you are requested to give a valid address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can see your details and a lot of individuals may not be okay with this. Consequently, many registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, 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 terms refer to the same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is exceptionally easy if you’ve got a shared web hosting. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you’ll just have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code top-level domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – if you wish to transfer a specific domain name to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact information with just several clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthenticated persons.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by completing a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you change your mind later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will require no more than a few mouse clicks.