According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Moreover, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that infrequent. This is the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different Control Panel tools. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the account activation procedure. Moreover, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to hide the contact information for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any time later through your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with a few mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered with us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain. In the very same fashion, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you’d like to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar and you need the real email associated with the domain name to be visible.