In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud isn’t that atypical. That’s why domain name registrars have come up with 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 enabled, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting package from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – once you log in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. If a particular generic or country-code top-level domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll see a tiny logo on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration procedure too, but since the service is optional, we will offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you think things over and opt to hide your private information from the public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.