In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that atypical. For this reason, domain registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your private details with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you have a shared website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t need to switch between different interfaces. In the exact same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether 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 upon registration. You’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the update will take effect immediately.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a couple of easy steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you skip 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, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after the signup process. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take no more than several clicks.