When you register a domain, you need to provide an authentic home address, email and telephone as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites too, so anyone can check your information and certain people may not be pleased with that fact. As a result, lots of companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names 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 Hosting
If you order a cloud hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will show you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to hide the contact details for your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any time later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain. In the very same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain to a different domain registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain name to be visible.