When you register a domain name, you are asked to provide an authentic address, email and phone in accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can view your information and certain people may not be happy with this. As a result, numerous domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, 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. As of now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you have a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you won’t need to log in and out of different admin panels. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration procedure. Plus, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the update will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is very easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server package. In case a given generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a mini symbol on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or remove the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process too, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you change your mind and opt to conceal your private details from the public after you have already created the account.