In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Besides, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. For this reason, domain name registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company if you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not need to use different Control Panels. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the registration procedure. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking several simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require only a few clicks.