When you register a domain name, you are asked to supply an authentic postal address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can see your info and many people may not be OK with this. As a result, many registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe 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
You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to log in and out of different admin dashboards. In the same section where all your active 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 let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the account activation process. You’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.