When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply an authentic postal address, email and telephone number in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS check sites as well, so anybody can view your information and a lot of individuals may not be okay with that fact. As a consequence, a lot of registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with us is surprisingly easy in case you have a Linux web hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you will simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – if you want to transfer a certain domain to another domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact information with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is amazingly easy if 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 Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated package. In case a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will notice a tiny button on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you think things over and choose to hide your personal details from the public eye after you have already created the account.