In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Additionally, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud isn’t that uncommon. This is the reason why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, 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’s still not possible to conceal your personal details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – once you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will let you know 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 Servers

In case you wish to hide the contact info associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be added with a few clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you have registered with our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each domain name. In the exact same way, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you would like to transfer a domain name to a different registrar company and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.