When you register a domain, you are obliged to provide an authentic postal address, email and telephone number in accordance with the policy adopted 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 general public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can see your information and some people may not be okay with this. As a result, numerous registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names 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 do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is exceptionally easy in case you have a Linux shared website hosting. You can accomplish this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you’ll simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a particular domain to some other domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact details with just a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthenticated persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a particular generic or country-code Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a tiny symbol next to that domain. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon signup as well, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and choose to conceal your private details from the public after you have already ordered the account.