In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Additionally, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in times when identity theft is not that uncommon. This is the reason why registrar companies have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your personal details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is remarkably easy if you’ve got a shared hosting. You can do this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each top-level domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it completely – in case you would like to transfer a given domain name to a different domain registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact details with only a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthorized individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This requires only a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.