When you register a domain, you are asked to supply a valid address, email and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can view your details and many individuals may not be satisfied with this. Consequently, lots of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. As of now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you have ordered a web hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal information secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will tell you if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. Thus, you can secure your private details even if you have not enabled the service during the web hosting account activation process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is incredibly easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-code Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a mini logo on its right. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains later in case you think things over and decide to hide your private info from the public after you’ve already created the account.