When you register a domain name, you are asked to give an authentic street address, email account and phone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can see your information and many people may not be delighted with this. As a result, lots of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to switch between different admin dashboards. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. Additionally, you’ll 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 right away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you would like to conceal the contact details associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered through us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to a different domain registrar and you need the real email account associated with the domain to be visible.