When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply a valid address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anyone can check your information and a lot of individuals may not be OK with that fact. As a consequence, numerous domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the very same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not have 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 whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so upon registration. What’s more, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is really easy if you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated server package. If a particular generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small button to the right of 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 remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you think things over and decide to hide your private details from the general public after you’ve already ordered the account.