When you register a domain name, you are obliged to provide an authentic street address, email and phone as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check web sites as well, so anybody can see your info and certain people may not be happy with that fact. As a consequence, a lot of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux website hosting plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will inform you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment later through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered through us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain. In the very same fashion, you can also renew the service or deactivate it – if you wish to transfer a domain to some other registrar and you need the real email address associated with the domain name to be visible.