When you register a domain, you are requested to provide an authentic home address, email and phone as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check sites too, so anybody can check your details and many people may not be satisfied with this. As a result, a lot of domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to use different admin dashboards. In the exact same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup process. What’s more, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the change will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account order process, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take just several clicks.