When you register a domain name, you have to provide a valid address, email account and phone as per the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS web sites too, so anyone can check your details and certain people may not be satisfied with this. Consequently, numerous registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. Today, 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 don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – once you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment afterwards via our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered with our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you want to transfer a domain name to another company and you need the actual email associated with the domain name to be visible.