According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this info is publicly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. For this reason, registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your information with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you won’t need to log in and out of different tools. In the exact same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you haven’t done so upon signup. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the change will take effect immediately.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to conceal the contact info associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment afterwards via your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the service or disable it – in case you want to transfer a domain name to another registrar and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.