When you register a domain name, you are obliged to give an authentic street 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 registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check websites too, so anyone can view your info and a lot of individuals may not be okay with this. As a consequence, lots of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. Today, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is surprisingly easy – after you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This requires only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.