When you register a domain, you have to give a valid street address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS check web sites as well, so anyone can see your info and certain individuals may not be pleased with this. As a consequence, numerous registrar companies 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 domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t need to go through different admin interfaces. In the same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect instantly.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is stunningly easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated package. In case a given generic or country-code Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny icon on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup procedure too, but since the service is optional, we will give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you think things over and choose to conceal your private details from the public after you have already created the account.