When you register a domain name, you have to supply an authentic street address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy approved 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 websites too, so anybody can see your details and many individuals may not be happy with this. As a consequence, numerous domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see 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 terms refer to the exact same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you order a cloud hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know 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 enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a given generic or country-code top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny sign on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon signup as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you change your mind and decide to hide your private information from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.