When you register a domain, you are requested to give an authentic address, email account 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 registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can see your details and a lot of people may not be happy with that fact. Consequently, a lot of domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with our company is amazingly easy if you have a Linux shared web hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you’ll just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a particular domain name to another domain registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact information with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated package. In case a specific generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a mini sign on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later time in case you change your mind and decide to hide your private information from the general public after you have already ordered the account.