According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Moreover, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that uncommon. That is the reason why registrar companies have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your personal details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a website hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you won’t need to sign in and out of different interfaces. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration procedure. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.