In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Furthermore, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft isn’t that atypical. For this reason, domain name registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not need to switch between different tools. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. What’s more, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to hide the contact details associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any moment afterwards via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered with us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each domain. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you would like to transfer a domain to some other registrar company and you need the actual email address associated with the domain name to be visible.