When you register a domain name, you are required to supply an authentic street address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS websites too, so anyone can check your information and a lot of people may not be OK with this. As a consequence, a lot of companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – once you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires only several clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.