When you register a domain name, you need to supply an authentic address, email and phone as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can see your information and certain individuals may not be satisfied with that fact. As a consequence, plenty of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, 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. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the world 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 Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin interfaces. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so upon signup. In addition, 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 right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domains and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.