When you register a domain name, you have to supply a genuine street address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anyone can view your details and lots of people may not be satisfied with that fact. As a consequence, many domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting package from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is surprisingly easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only a few mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.