According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Plus, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud is not that uncommon. That is the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your personal information with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is amazingly easy in case you’ve got a web hosting. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account – you will just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each TLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it completely – if you want to transfer a certain domain to another domain name registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or business contact info with only a few clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthorized individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires only several clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.