WHOIS Privacy Protection

An SSL certificate encrypts the connection between your clients and your online store and informs everybody that your store is a secure place for shopping. You would normally get an SSL certificate from a 3rd–party vendor. However, at Heartland Web Hosting, you can get one straight from your web hosting Control Panel.

Just go to the SSL Certificates section and choose if you want an ordinary SSL certificate or a wildcard SSL certificate. After that request an activation and we will carry out the rest on your behalf immediately.

Within the Control Panel there is a point & click domain name administration tool that has a myriad of controls for administering multiple domains simultaneously. You’ll be able to easily set up subdomain names, redirect websites, change the name servers or the WHOIS data pertaining to a domain name, specify custom DNS records and more.

Aside from the typical domain name controls, in the Domain Manager you’ll also find an option to hide your domain name registration info by using the Whois Privacy Protection option and also to protect your online shopping portal’s transactions with normal or wildcard Secure Sockets Layer certificates.

In our Domain Manager you can find a user–friendly tool, which will help you filter your website traffic based upon the visitors’ physical whereabouts. With Heartland Web Hosting’s GeoIP location tool, you’ll be able to easily configure location–based redirects and point visitors to various sections of your website. For example, you will be able to forward the US traffic to your index page, and the traffic from Spain to a subdomain – es.your–website.com, for example.

With this intuitive tool, you’ll no longer have to write dozens of lines of code in your .htaccess file. Everything’s taken care of by the tool itself.

Each and every domain name registrant is asked to give complete and precise registrant contact info. This is the so–called WHOIS info. As it needs to be as up to date as possible, it often has to be updated. And if you need to alter the WHOIS info for more than one single domain at the same time, this may be a quite challenging process.

Through the Domain Manager interface, you can effortlessly modify the WHOIS information for one or multiple domains simultaneously. All modifications will be reflected live almost immediately.

By locking your domain name, you’ll be able to defend it from unauthorized transfers. By doing this, any person who tries to trigger a transfer of your domain to another registrar will be momentarily stopped.

If you have to transfer the domain to a different domain name registrar yourself, you can unlock it with a simple mouse click. The domain locking/unlocking feature is accessible in the Domain Manager section of your Control Panel. Simply choose a domain name and click the Registrar Lock icon to lock or unlock it.

Working with our Domain Manager is very easy, no matter if you’ve got one or multiple domains to manage. Via its easy–to–navigate interface, you can select many domains at the same time and renew them (for one or several years), change their name servers or update the WHOIS information associated with them immediately.

If you also have a web hosting account with us, you will be able to manage both multiple domains and multiple websites simultaneously from one and the same location.

A 24/7 technical support service is included in our domain management package. Heartland Web Hosting’s customer service technicians are ready to help you with any problem that you may have registering, transferring or managing your domain names. For instance, if you have to edit your domain name’s nameservers, but don’t know how to accomplish that, simply let us know and we will help you out.

You can get in touch with our tech support staff via e–mail or via the technical support ticket system. You can also use the phone or our live chat service during working hours. We offer a 60–minute technical support ticket response time guarantee.

The domain forwarding tool that’s integrated into our web hosting Control Panel permits you to point a domain or a sub–domain in your account to another website of your choice. Just define the host you need to redirect as well as the destination path itself. Our tool will take care of the redirection procedure and your domain name will begin to point to the desired location immediately.

The tool has an easy–to–use interface, so you can redirect a chosen domain or subdomain with merely a couple of clicks instead of making complex modifications to the .htaccess file.

From the Custom DNS Records section of the Domain Manager, you can update all the DNS records pertaining to your domain with only one single click of the mouse! All main types of DNS resource records are supported, including A, AAAA, MX, NS, CNAME, SRV and TXT records. All you have to do is specify the new value for the DNS record that you want to set or edit, click on the action button and allow a little time for the new record to be propagated globally. An alternative option is to convert a DNS resource record to its former status.

What’s more, if you want to make your site’s nameservers look like your domain, you can accomplish that with merely a single mouse click via the Domain Manager.