When you register a domain, you are required to provide a valid postal address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anyone can view your info and some individuals may not be pleased with this. As a result, plenty of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. As of now, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you get a hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – after you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know whether the service is active 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
In case you have 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 requires just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated 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” sign, using which you can order, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.