When you register a domain name, you have to provide a genuine street address, email and telephone as per the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anyone can view your info and some people may not be okay with this. As a consequence, numerous registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a web hosting plan from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can secure your personal data even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.