When you register a domain, you are asked to supply a valid home address, email account and phone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can see your info and lots of individuals may not be delighted with that fact. As a consequence, a lot of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is exceptionally easy in case you’ve got a cloud website hosting. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each generic or country-code Top-Level Domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – in case you’d like to transfer a specific domain name to some other registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact information with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthorized people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.