When you register a domain, you need to provide a valid home address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can see your information and many people may not be happy with that fact. As a consequence, plenty of companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Nowadays, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t need to switch between different user interfaces. In the same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to hide the contact details for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered through our company will be displayed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you’d like to transfer a domain to another domain registrar and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.