When you register a domain, you are required to supply a genuine postal address, email account and phone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anyone can view your information and lots of individuals may not be okay with this. As a consequence, numerous registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly 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 accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to log in and out of different user interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the registration process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to hide the contact details for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any moment later via your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you would like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain name to be visible.