When you register a domain name, you need to supply an authentic address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anybody can view your information and lots of people may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, a lot of domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a cloud website hosting plan from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with gTLD and ccTLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.