When you register a domain name, you are asked to give a genuine home address, email account and telephone number as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS websites as well, so anyone can check your info and some individuals may not be satisfied with that fact. As a result, a lot of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is amazingly easy in case you have a Linux shared hosting package. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you will just need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – in case you wish to transfer a given domain name to another domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact info with only a couple of mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthenticated people.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This requires only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.