When you register a domain name, you have to give a genuine street address, email and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anybody can view your information and some individuals may not be happy with that fact. Consequently, a lot of domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see 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 the same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux shared website hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private info even if you have not enabled the service during the web hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to hide the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain. In the same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – if you would like to transfer a domain to a different registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.