When you register a domain, you have to provide a valid street address, email and phone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can see your info and many individuals may not be okay with that fact. As a consequence, lots of registrar 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 called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to sign in and out of different interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the registration process. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just a couple of clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can order, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.