When you register a domain name, you are requested to supply a valid street address, email and phone number in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can view your information and some individuals may not be okay with this. As a result, lots of companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the world 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 Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

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