When you register a domain, you are requested to supply an authentic address, email and telephone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anybody can view your info and many individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, numerous domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you have ordered a shared service from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just several mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your private details even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You’ll 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
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server plan. If a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny sign on its right. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup too, but since the service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your personal info from the public eye after you have already ordered the account.