When you register a domain name, you are obliged to give a valid home address, email account and telephone number as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anybody can view your info and many people may not be okay with that fact. Consequently, lots of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting
If you get a web 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 option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – after you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing several easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after signup. Renewing or disabling the service is just as easy and will take only a couple of clicks of the mouse.