When you register a domain name, you are asked to provide a valid postal address, email and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anybody can check your information and a lot of individuals may not be okay with this. Consequently, lots of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is stunningly easy in case you have a Linux hosting package. You can do this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you will only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – in case you wish to transfer a particular domain name to another registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact details with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthenticated people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.