When you register a domain, you need to give a genuine street address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS web sites too, so anybody can check your info and some individuals may not be pleased with that fact. As a result, lots of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is remarkably easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if 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 activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is stunningly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated plan. If a particular generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a mini sign to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you change your mind and opt to hide your private info from the public eye after you have already created the account.