According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Plus, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. Because of this, domain registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company if you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t need to go through different admin interfaces. In the very same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. Besides, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes just several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.