When you register a domain, you are required to provide a genuine postal address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS websites too, so anyone can view your details and lots of people may not be happy with this. As a consequence, numerous companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. Nowadays, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your private information even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.