In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Moreover, this information is freely visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. This is why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your personal details with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to go through different platforms. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the update will take effect momentarily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to hide the contact information for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered through our company will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each domain name. In the same manner, you can also renew the service or deactivate it – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar company and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.