When you register a domain, you are obliged to provide a genuine street address, email account and telephone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can view your details and a lot of people may not be comfortable with that fact. Consequently, lots of companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a shared website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to log in and out of different admin dashboards. In the same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so upon registration. Besides, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain name during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will take just several mouse clicks.