When you register a domain, you are requested to provide an authentic street address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS sites as well, so anyone can see your information and many people may not be pleased with that fact. As a result, many companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a website 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 have to go through different tools. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that 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 have not done so during the account activation process. Additionally, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the change will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you wish to hide the contact details for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any moment later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you wish to transfer a domain to a different registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.