When you register a domain, you need to supply a valid home address, email account and phone 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 accessible to the general public on WHOIS check websites too, so anyone can see your info and some individuals may not be delighted with that fact. Consequently, a lot of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view 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 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 added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different interfaces. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the signup process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect straight away.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’d like to hide the contact details associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any moment later via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you’d like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.