According to the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Besides, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. That is the reason why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, 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’s still not possible to hide your private information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not need to go through different platforms. In the exact 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 this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so during the signup procedure. Additionally, you will 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 right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This takes only a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so that you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.