When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply an authentic street address, email account and phone number as per the policies 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 general public on WHOIS check websites too, so anybody can see your details and a lot of people may not be delighted with that fact. Consequently, many domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t have to switch between different user interfaces. In the same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so during the registration process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is unbelievably easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated server package. In case a given generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a mini sign on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll have to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the signup procedure as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time if you think things over and choose to conceal your private information from the public after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.