When you register a domain, you are requested to provide a genuine home address, email and telephone as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anyone can check your information and lots of individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. Consequently, many companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t have to switch between different Control Panel tools. In the same section where all your registered domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the account activation process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated plan. If a specific generic or country-code domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a small sign on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon registration as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the chance to add it to any of your domains later if you think things over and decide to conceal your personal details from the general public after you have already created the account.