1. Privacy Protection is not available for the following domain name extensions:
    
   • .US, .IN (including .CO.IN, .NET.IN, .ORG.IN, .GEN.IN, .FIRM.IN, .IND.IN), .EU, .UK, .ASIA – Restrictions imposed by the Registry Operator
      
   • .COOP – Restrictions enforced through ICANN’s contract with the Sponsor/Registry Operator
      
2. If you wish to have your domain name Transferred away from Gossimer for some reason, you need to first disable the Privacy Protection and then place a transfer request at the Registrar of your choice.
    
3. Privacy Protection can be enabled/disabled only for those domain names which are not in locked/suspended status.
    

4. Depending upon whether the Privacy Protection feature is available for a domain name or not, the Order Details view of your domain name may or may not display the Privacy Protection status, under Order Information.

   Privacy Protection status Enabled – indicates that the Privacy Protection feature has been turned on for your domain name and your personal Contact Details are not being displayed in the Whois of your domain name.

   Privacy Protection status Disabled – indicates that the Privacy Protection feature has been turned off for your domain name and your personal Contact Details are being displayed in the Whois of your domain name.


For Customers

 Follow the steps below to enable/disable Privacy Protection for a domain name:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name. Click here to find instructions on how to do so >>
    
2. Click on the Domain name in the search results to get to the Order details view.
3. On this page, you need to click the Privacy Protection button

• If you wish to enable the Privacy Protection, you need to click on the Enable button.
   
• If you wish to disable Privacy Protection, you need to click on the Disable button.
   

For Resellers

Follow the steps below to enable/disable Privacy Protection for a domain name:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name. Click here to find instructions on how to do so >>
    
2. Click on the Domain name in the search results to get to the Order details view.
    
3. On this page, you need to click the Privacy Protection button

 

If you wish to enable the Privacy Protection, you need to click on the Enable button.

• If you need to disable Privacy Protection, you need to provide a reason for disabling Privacy Protection and then click on the Disable button.
   

1. In the event that you receive any Abuse complaint (Spam, Whois Inaccuracy, etc.) regarding a Privacy Protected domain name, then you are advised to disable Privacy Protection, with an appropriate reason. This reason will be visible to your immediate Customer or Sub-Reseller within the Privacy Protection interface.
2. By disabling Privacy Protection, you will not allow your Sub-Resellers/Customers to enable/disable Privacy Protection on a domain name.

However, images can be linked remotely also. In such cases, the images exist on a totally different  host than the one on which the webpage (in which the images are called) exists. The images are linked using absolute URLs, i.e., http://some otherdomainname.com/pictures/pic.2.jpg. This is known as hotlinking. Since the image is requested from a remote server/website, bandwidth allocated for the remote server/website is utilized. If one indulges in such a practice without the approval of the remote server/website owner, this sort of linking can also be termed as bandwidth theft.

To assist you in preventing such abuse, Gossimer, LLC has provided a feature known as Bandwidth Theft Protection with its Linux Hosting Packages. Using this feature, you can prevent images linked to your website to be referenced remotely.

Using the Bandwidth Theft Protection feature

Follow the process mentioned below to enable Bandwidth Theft Protection for your website:

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package. Click here to read how >>
    
2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.
    
3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
    
4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Additional Tools -> Bandwidth Theft Protection.
    
5. Here, select Yes in the drop-down menu next to Enable Bandwidth Theft Protection.
    
6. The extensions – .gif, .bmp, .jpg and .png – are listed by default in the File Extensions to be protected textbox -
    

   • If you wish to remove an extension from the list, select the same in the textbox and press the Delete key on your computer’s keyboard.
      
   • If you wish re-submit an extension disabled earlier, simply type in the extension in the textbox.
      

7. Click on the Submit button to save your settings.