When you register a domain, you are obliged to provide an authentic street address, email and telephone number in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anybody can view your details and a lot of people may not be pleased with that fact. Consequently, lots of domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains 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 Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – after you log in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you 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 active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is amazingly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a small button to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and decide to hide your private details from the public eye after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.