When you register a domain, you have to supply a genuine street address, email and phone number as per the policy 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 accessible to the public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can see your info and certain individuals may not be okay with that fact. Consequently, plenty of registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. At the moment, 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 do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting package from our company, you will 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 add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – once you log in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see 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 name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.