When you register a domain name, you are required to give a valid street address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anybody can view your details and certain people may not be comfortable with this. Consequently, lots of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. Nowadays, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to go through different tools. In the very same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the registration process. You’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.