When you register a domain, you have to supply an authentic postal address, email account and phone number as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check websites too, so anyone can view your details and many individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, many registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you have ordered a shared website hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private info safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. Thus, you can secure your private information even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes just a few clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.