According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Additionally, this info is freely available on WHOIS sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. That’s the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is extremely easy – once you log in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to hide the contact details for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any time later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain. In the same manner, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it – if you wish to transfer a domain to another domain registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.