When you register a domain name, you need to provide an authentic address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check web sites as well, so anybody can view your information and lots of people may not be comfortable with this. Consequently, numerous registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, 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. 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 do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a shared hosting plan from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your personal data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will show you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your personal info even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account order 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 want to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any time later via your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with several clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – if you wish to transfer a domain to some other registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.