When you register a domain, you need to provide a valid postal address, email and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anybody can see your information and many individuals may not be satisfied with that fact. Consequently, a lot of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a cloud website 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 option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – once you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is remarkably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a tiny logo to the right of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll have to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup process too, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domain names at a later time in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private info from the public eye after you’ve already created the account.