When you register a domain name, you need to give an authentic postal address, email and telephone number in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anybody can see your details and lots of people may not be satisfied with this. Consequently, a lot of domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different admin dashboards. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each 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 specific domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the signup procedure. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect instantaneously.