When you register a domain, you are requested to supply a genuine home address, email and phone 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 name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anyone can view your details and many individuals may not be satisfied with that fact. As a result, numerous registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you have a web hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to use different platforms. In the same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so upon signup. Plus, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domain names and for each of them you will see 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 Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.