According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Moreover, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that atypical. This is why domain name 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’s active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – once you log in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you have registered through our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to hide the contact details associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any time afterwards through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be displayed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the service or remove it – in case you want to transfer a domain to some other registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.