When you register a domain name, you are asked to give a genuine address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anyone can see your info and lots of individuals may not be comfortable with this. As a result, plenty of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact information 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 expressions refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you get a hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is really easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you whether the service is activated 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 activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
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 following a couple of easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can enable 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 enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the service is just as easy and will take only a few mouse clicks.