In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Furthermore, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that rare. That is why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your personal details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – once you log in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will show you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing several simple steps. In case you order a registration/transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain. If you omit this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after signing up. Renewing or removing the service is just as easy and will require no more than several clicks of the mouse.