When you register a domain name, you are obliged to give a valid street address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies 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 public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anybody can view your information and certain individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, a lot of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain 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 the very same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – after you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we can’t provide.