In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. At the same time, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that atypical. That is the reason why domain registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar, 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 not possible to hide your private 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’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domains. Its color will tell you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your personal information even if you haven’t added the service upon signup. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is extremely easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a given generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a mini button to the right of that domain. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon signup 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 conceal your private info from the public eye after you’ve already ordered the semi-dedicated account.