When you register a domain name, you have to supply a genuine street address, email and telephone number in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anybody can see your details and certain individuals may not be happy with this. Consequently, lots of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a shared website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t have to use different Control Panel tools. In the exact same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Moreover, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by completing several easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account order procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you skip this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after signup. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require just a few clicks of the mouse.