When you register a domain, you have to supply an authentic street address, email account and phone as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can check your information and some individuals may not be okay with that fact. Consequently, plenty of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a shared web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t need to use different admin panels. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the signup procedure. Plus, 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 momentarily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you wish to hide the contact information for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any moment later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – if you would like to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.