When you register a domain name, you are obliged to give an authentic home address, email account and telephone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can view your details and many people may not be satisfied with that fact. As a result, numerous domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see 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 expressions refer to the very same service. As of now, most of the TLDs around the world 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 Website Hosting
You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you have a cloud website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to use different tools. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so upon registration. Besides, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect right away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’d like to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any time afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered with our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain name. In the very same fashion, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you want to transfer a domain name to a different company and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.