When you register a domain, you are requested to give an authentic street address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can see your info and some people may not be delighted with that fact. Consequently, many registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you have a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not need to switch between different Control Panel tools. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the signup process. Besides, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a few easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain. If you omit this step and you think things over at a later time, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require no more than several mouse clicks.