When you register a domain, you have to give a valid postal address, email account and phone number as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anybody can view your information and a lot of people may not be delighted with this. Consequently, many domain registrars have launched 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 those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is really easy if you’ve got a shared website hosting. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you will just need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – if you would like to transfer a certain domain name to a different registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact info with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated plan. In case a given generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a tiny logo on its right. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same way, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names later in case you change your mind and choose to conceal your private information from the public after you have already created the account.