According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Besides, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that atypical. For this reason, domain name registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you won’t have to log in and out of different admin panels. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. Furthermore, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is remarkably easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered with our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated plan. If a specific generic or country-code domain name supports Whois Privacy Protection, you’ll notice a small icon to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you will have to click on it. In the very same way, you can also renew or remove the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name upon registration too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your personal info from the general public after you have already ordered the account.