When you register a domain, you are requested to provide an authentic address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anyone can see your information and lots of people may not be okay with that fact. As a result, many domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a shared website hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private details secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domains. Its color will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your private info even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This takes just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.