When you register a domain, you are obliged to provide a valid street address, email account and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anyone can check your info and many people may not be OK with this. Consequently, lots of domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different admin consoles. In the same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so upon signup. Besides, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to hide the contact details associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any moment later via our Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a few clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each domain. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – if you would like to transfer a domain to another registrar and you need the real email account associated with the domain to be visible.