When you register a domain name, you need to give a genuine address, email account and telephone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check sites as well, so anyone can view your info and certain individuals may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, many companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is exceptionally easy in case you’ve got a shared website hosting plan. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you will only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you want to transfer a particular domain name to some other registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact information with just a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just a couple of clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.