Whois Privacy Protection

Uncover what Whois Privacy Protection is and in what way it helps secure your own personal details.

When you register a domain, you have to provide an authentic postal address, email and telephone as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can check your information and lots of individuals may not be happy with this. Consequently, plenty of registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. As of now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – once you log in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.