In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is freely visible on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in times when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. For this reason, domain name registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your personal info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different admin panels. In the same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect instantaneously.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a few simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you skip this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will take just several clicks of the mouse.