According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. That is why domain name registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a web hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your private information intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can safeguard your private details even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is incredibly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server plan. If a particular generic or country-specific domain supports Whois Privacy Protection, you will see a mini symbol on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same fashion, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain upon signup as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the possibility to add it to any of your domains later if you think things over and choose to hide your private information from the public after you have already ordered the semi-dedicated account.