When you register a domain name, you need to give a genuine street address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anyone can view your details and certain people may not be OK with that fact. As a consequence, lots of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, 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 same service. Now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is incredibly easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires just a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.