When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide a genuine postal 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 domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS websites as well, so anyone can see your details and many individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, numerous registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact 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 called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is stunningly easy – once 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 one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will inform you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on 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

In case you wish to hide the contact info associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment later through our Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered with our company will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar company and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.