When you register a domain name, you are required to supply an authentic street address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check web sites as well, so anyone can view your details and a lot of individuals may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, plenty of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see 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. 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 option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company if you’ve got a web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you won’t have to log in and out of different admin interfaces. In the same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. You will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to hide the contact information for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered with us will be displayed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.