When you register a domain name, you are requested to give a valid address, email account and phone number 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 domain name registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can check your info and lots of individuals may not be happy with that fact. As a consequence, many registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared plan from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your personal details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will let you know if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can shield your private data even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after signup. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will take just a couple of mouse clicks.