When you register a domain, you are asked to give an authentic home address, email and phone number as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anyone can check your information and lots of individuals may not be delighted with that fact. As a consequence, lots of companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a web hosting from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private info safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal information even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires only a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.