In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Moreover, this info is publicly available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud is not that rare. This is why registrar companies have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your private information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

You can swiftly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company if you have a website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you will not need to sign in and out of different admin consoles. 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 option. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect right away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to hide the contact information for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a few clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered through our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each domain. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or shut it off – if you would like to transfer a domain name to a different registrar company and you need the actual email associated with the domain name to be visible.