When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide an authentic postal address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anyone can check your info and some individuals may not be pleased with that fact. As a consequence, numerous companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is very easy – after you log in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.