When you register a domain name, you are required to supply an authentic postal address, email account and telephone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check sites as well, so anybody can see your information and a lot of people may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, a lot of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting plan from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by completing a couple of simple steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over afterwards, you can enable 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 domain names that you register with us after signup. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require no more than a couple of clicks.