When you register a domain name, you are asked to provide an authentic home address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anyone can view your information and many individuals may not be OK with this. Consequently, many registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Nowadays, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – once you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to hide the contact details associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered through us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you want to transfer a domain to another company and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.