When you register a domain, you need to supply an authentic address, email and telephone number as per 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 lookup websites as well, so anybody can check your information and some people may not be comfortable with that fact. Consequently, a lot of domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact details 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 names refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you order a cloud hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – after you log in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will show you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires just several mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything related to your account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.