When you register a domain, you have to supply a genuine home address, email account and telephone number as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS check sites too, so anyone can check your information and certain individuals may not be delighted with that fact. As a result, many domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the 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 expressions refer to the same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through us. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. In case a particular generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll notice a small symbol next to that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and opt to conceal your personal information from the public eye after you have already created the account.