When you register a domain, you are asked to give an authentic address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can see your details and certain individuals may not be pleased with this. As a result, many companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have ordered a cloud web hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your private information even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup 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
Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a specific generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny sign to the right of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you change your mind and choose to conceal your private details from the general public after you’ve already created the account.