When you register a domain, you are obliged to give an authentic address, email 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 company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can view your details and some individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a consequence, plenty of companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will inform you whether 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 enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in a couple of simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account order process, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup process. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as easy and will take no more than a few clicks of the mouse.