When you register a domain name, you have to supply a valid postal address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites too, so anybody can check your information and some people may not be OK with that fact. As a result, numerous domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain 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. Today, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you have a shared web hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to log in and out of different admin consoles. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the registration procedure. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you want to conceal the contact details for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered through our company will be displayed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain name. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or remove it – if you want to transfer a domain to some other company and you need the real email associated with the domain name to be visible.