When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply a valid address, email account and phone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can check your info and a lot of people may not be happy with this. As a result, plenty of domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – once you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.