When you register a domain, you are requested to give a valid address, email account and telephone number as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anyone can view your information and many individuals may not be delighted with that fact. As a result, plenty of domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, 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 terms refer to one and the same service. Now, 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 Hosting

If you order a hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is amazingly easy – after you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a given generic or country-code Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small icon next to that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process as well, but since the 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 opt to hide your private information from the public eye after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.