When you register a domain, you have to supply an authentic home address, email and phone as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can check your info and a lot of individuals may not be pleased with this. As a consequence, lots of registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain 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. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – after you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through our company. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’d like to hide the contact information associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment later via our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with our company will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to a different domain name registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain to be visible.