When you register a domain, you have to supply a genuine home address, email account and phone number as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anybody can view your information and lots of individuals may not be okay with this. Consequently, numerous registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to go through different Control Panels. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want to hide the contact info associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with our company will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain name. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – if you’d like to transfer a domain to some other domain registrar and you need the actual email associated with the domain to be visible.