In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. In addition, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. That’s the reason why registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. 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

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is remarkably easy in case you’ve got a Linux shared hosting. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you will only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code Top-Level Domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you wish to transfer a particular domain name to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact information with just a couple of clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unsolicited individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is astonishingly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package. If a given generic or country-specific top-level domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a small logo on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account order process as well, 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 created the account.