When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide a genuine street address, email account and phone number as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check websites too, so anyone can see your info and a lot of people may not be okay with this. As a result, lots of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to 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-specific extensions that don’t support the service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you’ve ordered a Linux shared hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your personal information even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the 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 Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a few clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.