When you register a domain name, you are required to give a genuine postal address, email and telephone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can see your information and certain people may not be OK with this. Consequently, plenty of registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company if you have a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not have to log in and out of different admin interfaces. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the signup procedure. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a few clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.