When you register a domain, you have to give a genuine address, email and phone as per the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can see your info and lots of people may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, plenty of domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to go through different admin consoles. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the registration process. Besides, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only a few mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.