When you register a domain, you are obliged to give a valid postal address, email account and telephone number as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS web sites too, so anybody can see your info and certain individuals may not be delighted with this. As a result, a lot of companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains 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 Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux shared hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private details secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your private details even if you have not enabled the service during the hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to hide the contact details for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon registration or at any moment later via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the very same manner, you can also renew the service or turn it off – in case you wish to transfer a domain name to a different registrar company and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.