When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide an authentic home address, email and phone as per the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can check your info and lots of individuals may not be pleased with that fact. As a result, lots of domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you’ve got a shared website hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you will not have to sign in and out of different interfaces. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.