When you register a domain, you are required to give a genuine address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can see your details and some people may not be happy with this. Consequently, many registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world 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

If you have ordered a shared hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal info safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can safeguard your private info even if you have not enabled the service during the signup process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’d like to conceal the contact information for your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any time later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered with our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each domain name. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – in case you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar company and you need the actual email associated with the domain to be visible.