When you register a domain name, you are required to provide an authentic address, email account and phone number as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS web sites too, so anyone can see your information and many people may not be delighted with that fact. As a result, plenty of registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux shared website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private data intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will tell you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can shield your private information even if you have not added the service upon registration. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to conceal the contact details for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the service or remove it – in case you would like to transfer a domain to a different company and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.