When you register a domain, you are required to supply an authentic home address, email and phone number as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anybody can check your information and certain people may not be happy with this. Consequently, lots of domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. In this way, you can protect your private info even if you have not added the service during the hosting account activation procedure. 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 Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is stunningly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated package. If a specific generic or country-specific domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a tiny button next to that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation procedure too, but since the service is optional, we’ll give you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and opt to hide your personal details from the public eye after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.