When you register a domain name, you are obliged to supply a valid home address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anybody can view your information and many people may not be comfortable with this. As a result, a lot of registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux web hosting package from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can protect your private details even if you haven’t added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a few easy steps. In case you register or transfer a domain name during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind later, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require only a couple of clicks.