When you register a domain, you are required to supply a valid address, email and phone as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS web sites too, so anyone can check your info and some people may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, lots of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see 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 same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – after you sign 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 us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.