According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that rare. That is the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – after you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to hide the contact details for your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any time later through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with several mouse 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 enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or shut it off – in case you want to transfer a domain to another domain name registrar and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.