When you register a domain, you need to supply a genuine postal address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check websites too, so anyone can view your information and some individuals may not be okay with that fact. As a result, many companies have launched 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 the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you will not need to use different admin panels. In the very same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so upon registration. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires only a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.