When you register a domain name, you are asked to supply an authentic home address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anyone can see your details and many people may not be OK with this. As a result, numerous domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. At the moment, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company if you have a shared web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not have to switch between different platforms. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so upon signup. You’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect immediately.