When you register a domain, you are requested to provide a valid address, email and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS check sites as well, so anyone can see your info and lots of individuals may not be happy with this. As a consequence, numerous companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see 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 expressions refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you will not need to log in and out of different user interfaces. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. What’s more, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up buying a service that we can’t provide.