When you register a domain name, you are required to supply a genuine home address, email account and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anybody can check your information and a lot of people may not be OK with this. As a result, lots of registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, 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 terms refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the signup process. You will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain 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 semi-dedicated server plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a tiny icon next to that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon registration as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you think things over and decide to conceal your private details from the public eye after you’ve already created the account.