When you register a domain name, you have to give an authentic home address, email and phone number in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can view your info and lots of people may not be delighted with this. Consequently, many companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. As of now, 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 Shared Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is amazingly easy in case you’ve got a Linux shared web hosting. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account – you will simply need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each generic or country-code top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – if you would like to transfer a given domain name to a different domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or corporate contact information with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthenticated people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This takes just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.