In accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Plus, this info is openly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in an age when identity theft is not that atypical. That is the reason why domain registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is exceptionally easy if you’ve got a shared hosting. You can do this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code Top-Level Domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it completely – in case you wish to transfer a specific domain name to another domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact information with just a couple of clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unsolicited individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

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