When you register a domain name, you are asked to supply an authentic address, email account and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites too, so anybody can check your info and some people may not be satisfied with that fact. Consequently, lots of domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux web hosting package from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will tell you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks. In this way, you can protect your private details even if you have not activated the service during the web 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

In case you wish to hide the contact information for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation procedure or at any time later through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered through our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain name. In the very same manner, you can also renew the service or disable it – if you want to transfer a domain name to some other domain name registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.