When you register a domain, you are requested to give a genuine street address, email and phone number in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can view your details and some individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, lots of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – after you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a few easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take only a few mouse clicks.