When you register a domain, you need to supply an authentic home address, email account and phone as per the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can view your information and certain people may not be okay with this. As a consequence, lots of registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can protect your private details even if you have not added the service during the web hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’d like to hide the contact details for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any time later through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be displayed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain name. In the same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you’d like to transfer a domain name to a different domain name registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.