When you register a domain, you need to supply a genuine address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can view your information and a lot of individuals may not be okay with that fact. As a consequence, numerous domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Today, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you get a hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – after you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will tell you whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following several easy steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the account order process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you change your mind later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will require only a few clicks of the mouse.