When you register a domain name, you are requested to supply a valid home address, email and phone number in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can check your information and certain people may not be delighted with this. Consequently, numerous registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Today, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t have to switch between different platforms. In the exact same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered through us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – if you want to transfer a domain name to another company and you need the real email associated with the domain name to be visible.