According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Plus, this information is publicly available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud isn’t that rare. Because of this, registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is extremely easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by taking several easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after the signup process. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require only several clicks.