When you register a domain name, you have to supply a valid home address, email and telephone number as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS sites as well, so anybody can view your information and a lot of individuals may not be OK with this. Consequently, lots of registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains 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 Web Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is surprisingly easy if you have a shared web hosting plan. You can do this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you’ll only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each TLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – if you would like to transfer a particular domain name to some other domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or business contact info with only several clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unsolicited people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you wish to hide the contact details associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any time afterwards through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a few mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – in case you’d like to transfer a domain name to a different company and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.