When you register a domain, you are required to provide an authentic home address, email account and phone number as per the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can view your info and lots of individuals may not be okay with this. Consequently, plenty of domain name registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or 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 that you’ve registered with our company if you have a website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not need to switch between different admin dashboards. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the registration procedure. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just several mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domain names and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.