According to the policies adopted 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 all the time. Furthermore, this information is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. This is the reason 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 is active, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your personal information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you get a shared website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – once you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you if the service is enabled 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 activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the signup process, you can get the service together with the domain. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later point in time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require no more than several clicks of the mouse.