In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Besides, this information is publicly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that rare. That is why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your personal information with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is really easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will show you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.