When you register a domain name, you are asked to supply a valid home address, email and telephone as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anybody can check your information and lots of individuals may not be delighted with this. Consequently, numerous registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website 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/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is remarkably easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to hide the contact details for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each domain. In the exact same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – in case you wish to transfer a domain to a different registrar and you need the actual email associated with the domain name to be visible.