When you register a domain, you are required to give a valid address, email and telephone number as per the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anyone can view your details and lots of people may not be pleased with this. As a result, a lot of companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Now, most of the TLDs around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names provided that their extensions support this 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 through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – once you log in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will show you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.