When you register a domain, you are required to provide an authentic postal address, email and phone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anybody can view your info and certain people may not be okay with that fact. As a result, a lot of registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t need to log in and out of different user interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domains 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 whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so upon signup. Furthermore, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This requires just a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.