In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Furthermore, this info is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that atypical. That is the reason why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your personal information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different admin interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is unbelievably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each semi-dedicated server package. In case a specific generic or country-code Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small icon on its right. To activate the service, you’ll have to click on it. In the very same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time if you think things over and choose to hide your personal info from the public eye after you have already ordered the account.