When you register a domain, you are asked to give an authentic address, email account and telephone as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can check your details and a lot of people may not be okay with this. Consequently, plenty of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain 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 known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Today, 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 this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will inform you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’d like to hide the contact information associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any moment later through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or disable it – if you want to transfer a domain name to a different registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain name to be visible.