When you register a domain name, you are requested to supply an authentic address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup web sites too, so anyone can see your details and many individuals may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, numerous registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view 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 expressions refer to the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a cloud website hosting package from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – after you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will show you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.