When you register a domain name, you have to give an authentic home address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can check your information and lots of individuals may not be OK with that fact. As a consequence, lots of registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. As of now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is really easy – after you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.