When you register a domain name, you are required to supply a genuine address, email and phone number in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check web sites as well, so anybody can view your details and certain people may not be OK with that fact. Consequently, many registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a shared web hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your personal data intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domains. Its colour will show you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal details even if you haven’t activated the service during the web hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.