When you register a domain, you are asked to give a genuine postal address, email account and telephone as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can check your info and many individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, numerous companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a couple of easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will take no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse.