When you register a domain, you are required to give a valid street address, email account and telephone number as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS lookup web sites too, so anyone can view your details and certain individuals may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, many domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the top-level domain names 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 Hosting
If you get a hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – once you log in, you’ll have to visit 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” logo, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can order, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.