According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Besides, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that rare. That is the reason why 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 enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your private details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with our company is very easy if you have a shared web hosting plan. You can do this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you will just have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it completely – in case you wish to transfer a specific domain to some other registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or business contact details with just a couple of mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unsolicited persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

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 any difficulty. This requires just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your domain names and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.