When you register a domain name, you are requested to supply a valid street address, email and telephone number in accordance with 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 available to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anyone can see your info and many individuals may not be OK with this. Consequently, a lot of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not have to sign in and out of different platforms. In the same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the account activation process. Moreover, you’ll 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 instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a few easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over afterwards, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after the signup process. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will take no more than several mouse clicks.