When you register a domain, you are asked to provide a genuine home address, email and phone as per the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anyone can view your details and many people may not be delighted with that fact. As a result, numerous domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s 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 Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a web hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you will not have to go through different admin panels. In the same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. You will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.