According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Additionally, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that uncommon. For this reason, domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will tell you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is surprisingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered with us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a given generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a mini icon on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the signup procedure too, but since the service is optional, we will give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and opt to hide your private info from the public after you’ve already ordered the account.