When you register a domain name, you are required to provide a valid street address, email and phone number as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS sites as well, so anybody can view your information and certain individuals may not be delighted with that fact. As a consequence, many domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is really easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will inform you whether the service is enabled 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 activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the same manner, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you’d like to transfer a domain name to another registrar company and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.