When you register a domain, you are requested to supply an authentic postal address, email and phone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can see your info and many people may not be happy with this. As a consequence, many domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. As of now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you order a hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – once you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following a couple of simple steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you omit this step and you think things over later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require only a couple of clicks.