When you register a domain name, you need to supply a genuine address, email and telephone number as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can check your info and some individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, plenty of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t have to sign in and out of different platforms. In the same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you will 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-code top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we can’t provide.