When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply a valid address, email account and phone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can check your information and certain people may not be pleased with this. As a consequence, lots of companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is remarkably easy – after you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each of them you’ll see 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 name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.