In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Moreover, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in times when identity fraud isn’t that rare. That is the reason why registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your private details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is extremely easy if you have a Linux shared website hosting package. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you will just have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, 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 deactivate it altogether – in case you wish to transfer a given domain name to some other company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact details with just a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unsolicited people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any moment later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the service or shut it off – if you wish to transfer a domain name to a different domain registrar and you need the actual email associated with the domain name to be visible.