In accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. At the same time, this information is publicly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in times when identity theft is not that rare. That is the reason why registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is unbelievably easy in case you have a shared web hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you will simply need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each 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 altogether – if you would like to transfer a given domain to a different registrar. With our 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 info might be obtained by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to conceal the contact information associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any time later through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the service or disable it – in case you want to transfer a domain name to a different registrar and you need the real email account associated with the domain name to be visible.