When you register a domain, you are required to provide an authentic home address, email and phone number 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 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 happy with that fact. Consequently, plenty of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to log in and out of different admin consoles. 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 this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so during the signup process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect instantly.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is very easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a specific generic or country-code Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a mini symbol on its right. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order process too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you change your mind and decide to conceal your private info from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.