When you register a domain, you are asked to provide a valid postal address, email account and phone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anybody can view your info and some individuals may not be happy with that fact. As a result, lots of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a cloud website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will show you whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking a couple of easy steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the signup process, you can get the service together with the domain. In case you skip this step and you think things over later, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after signup. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as easy and will take only several clicks.