In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Besides, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS web sites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that atypical. That is why registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domains. Its color will show you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your personal info even if you have not enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This requires only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we cannot provide.