When you register a domain name, you need to provide a valid home address, email and telephone in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can view your information and lots of people may not be comfortable with this. As a consequence, many domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is extremely easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on 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 Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This takes just a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.