When you register a domain name, you are required to give an authentic street address, email and phone number as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anybody can check your details and a lot of individuals may not be delighted with that fact. Consequently, lots of companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a shared website hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to log in and out of different Control Panels. In the exact same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to hide the contact info for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each domain name. In the very same fashion, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you would like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar and you need the actual email associated with the domain to be visible.