When you register a domain, you are asked to supply a genuine postal address, email account and telephone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites too, so anyone can check your information and lots of people may not be pleased with that fact. As a consequence, a lot of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to log in and out of different user interfaces. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. What’s more, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by completing a few easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take just a few clicks of the mouse.