When you register a domain name, you are asked to give a valid home address, email and phone in accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anybody can see your information and lots of people may not be delighted with this. As a result, plenty of registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see 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 expressions refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux shared web hosting package from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private data intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domains. Its colour will let you know if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your private info even if you haven’t activated the service during the registration procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate 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 name is really easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated package. If a specific generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a mini icon on its right. To activate the service, you will have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure too, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you think things over and opt to hide your private info from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.