In accordance with the policy approved 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. Moreover, this info is publicly accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. For this reason, registrar companies have launched a service that hides the details of their customers 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, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is incredibly easy – after you log in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires just a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything associated with your account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.