When you register a domain name, you are required to supply a valid address, email account and telephone number as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites too, so anybody can see your info and some people may not be okay with that fact. Consequently, a lot of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. Today, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you will not have to sign in and out of different admin panels. In the very same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so during the registration process. What’s more, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.