When you register a domain name, you have to provide a valid postal address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anyone can see your information and lots of individuals may not be pleased with this. As a result, numerous registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to go through different admin consoles. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the change will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny logo on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account order procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you think things over and opt to hide your private details from the general public after you’ve already created the account.