When you register a domain name, you have to give a genuine address, email account and phone as per the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, however, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anyone can check your information and many individuals may not be okay with that fact. Consequently, lots of domain name registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. As of now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you’ve ordered a shared plan from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal information secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each of your domain names. Its color will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks. In this way, you can secure your private data even if you have not activated the service during the web hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.