When you register a domain, you are asked to provide a valid postal address, email and phone number as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can view your details and many individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, a lot of companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view 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 expressions refer to the exact same service. Nowadays, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is incredibly easy – once you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.