In accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Moreover, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that infrequent. That’s the reason why domain name registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your personal info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux shared web hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any difficulty and to keep your private data intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domain names. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can secure your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to conceal the contact information associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup procedure or at any moment later via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each domain name. In the very same manner, you can also renew the service or deactivate it – if you wish to transfer a domain to a different domain name registrar and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.