When you register a domain name, you are required to provide an authentic street address, email account and phone number as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anybody can check your information and many individuals may not be happy with this. Consequently, numerous registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you get a hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is remarkably easy – after you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.