When you register a domain name, you need to supply a valid street address, email account and phone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS sites as well, so anybody can view your information and certain people may not be OK with that fact. As a result, a lot of registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a shared hosting plan. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your hosting account – you will just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it completely – if you’d like to transfer a particular domain name to another registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact information with just a few clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthenticated persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is really easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated plan. In case a particular generic or country-specific domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a small logo on its right. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon registration too, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and opt to hide your personal information from the general public after you’ve already created the account.