When you register a domain, you are obliged to provide a genuine home address, email account and phone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS websites too, so anybody can check your details and some people may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, plenty of registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’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 known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you order a hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is stunningly easy – after you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if 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 activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is surprisingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-specific domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a mini icon to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you think things over and decide to hide your private details from the general public after you’ve already created the account.