When you register a domain, you are obliged to give a genuine street address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anybody can view your details and a lot of individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, numerous registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact 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 known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domains. Its color will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal details even if you haven’t added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account activation procedure. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.